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HOW THE KING 
REIGNED IN HRIEL 

** Behold, a King shall reign in Righteousness!'* 



BY 



Richard Hayes McCartney 

Author of: ''That Jew" "The Antichrist," 
"Jewish Title to Asia Minor," etc. 



FULTON 8T. 
ORDERS TO I II L U U U l\ UlflLL NEW YORK 



THE BOOK STALL '-^ 



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COPYRIGHTED 192I 

BY 

FRANCES SWEETMAN HAYES m'cARTNEY MORSE 



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"PATRIC" 

(Miriam Elizabeth McCartney Morse) 

I fain would tell what Thou shalt see 
IN Golden Age — so soon to he — 
For faint indeed zvords to portray 
The splendours of The Glory Day, 
When zve as Risen Saints shall stand 
Mid beauties of the Holy Land; 
And zvalk zvithin The House of Praise 
Singing to Him through endless days. 
When purged of Sin, and tears, and pain, 
Humanity in one grand strain 
Shall zi'orship Christ upon His Throne — 
When worlds in all the spaces ozvn! 

Then, Thou, shalt be the one possessed 

Of Gift from King, most truly blest — 

A song bird singing in the light — 

A song bird in a rapturous flight — 

A song bird passing to and fro 

Revealing Gifts He will bestow; 

And so to others blessings bring 

With Gifts given Thee by Christ The King. 

Chicago, July ip20. 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 

CHAPTER I 
A NIGHT'S RAMBLE 

Visions of The Night — or Day Dr earns j which f 
Lo, the things I beheld are true. 

NIGHT in a forest. I had been from my boy- 
hood — aye in my manhood — a coward in the 
dark — so when I saw the tall dark trees where 
ever I turned — I surely stood there in a shiver of fear. 
Below my feet rich grasses, wet with night dews — and 
to my nostrils came the scent of flowers, a score of 
scents — the smell of the trees — the smell of bushes — 
the smell from the thousand flowers I could not see 
but I knew must be all about me — and as the tribute 
of the flowers rolled in on my quivering nerves the 
sense of fear faded away — and a holy calm fell on my 
mind. My eyes became accustomed to the surround- 
ings — for the light of the stars stole here and there 
through the branches — the thick branches overhead— 
and I stood in a twilight land. And such silence — A 
profound calm — (not a painful, apprehensive silence) 
everywhere — the world most surely was asleep — asleep 
without a single care to cross the sleeper's mind — and 
make them stir restlessly with even the echo of sorrow 
— or a single thought foreshadowing of a bitter to- 



6 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

morrow. Nature asleep — Nature at rest — no cry, no 
sigh, no motion to fret in any measure, the benedic- 
tion of a blessed calm. No tree top rustled — no leaf 
stirred, no branch cracked, no twig snapped, no breath 
of wind, no murmur of a zephyr — motion had died — 
and all silence. No stir of bird, no rustle in the nest, 
no owl cry, no bat-wing — no creature — man, nor beast, 
nor fowl, nor bird, nor insect to break the wonderful 
calm. And yet my heart, my soul knew well that Life 
wonderful, life multitudinous was all around me — 
not a dead tree, nor branch, nor bramble, nor flowers, 
nor flower, nor smallest tiniest blade of grass dead — 
all around me mysterious life, but life at rest, at ease, 
in slumber sweet. 

And of a sudden — from some tree branches of a 
glade not far away — there burst a melody of song — 
a song of life, of joy, of gladness, of delight, of praise, 
until the woods were full of it, and every tree, and 
brush, and grass, and flower were all listening to it — 
and in their dreams felt the rich pulsations of that 
song — the song of a nightingale. It was a prayer, a 
hymn of praise, and as I listened my soul too as of a 
bird felt beneath itself — wings wherewith to upwards 
soar — and, lo, the bird and my soul surely stood in the 
Presence of our God. 

But of creature life I heard no sound, no breathing, 
no motion — slumber was not disturbed to the trembling 
of an eyelash. 

And I stepped out — I knew not where — I heeded 
not the compass point, simply an inclination to move 
on. 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 7 

Then, lo, the trees grew less thickly — the brightness 
overhead more distinct, more gracious, my feet stood 
in an open place — suddenly again a great fear on me — 
for, lo, there in my pathway a most gorgeous colored 
snake — with every scale as it were a small jewel glis- 
tening, in one vast coil. The flattened head was right 
before me, we were face to face. I started back — I 
expected to see the flash of eyes, the nervous fangs, 
the quivering of the folds — and the fatal spring — But 
no motion — was it dead? no, living jeweled thing — 
one could see the pulsation of Hfe in every fold, it 
beheld me, but gave no sign of anger. 

And what was that a few feet further on — no mis- 
taking the tawny colored things — the one full maned, 
the paws stretched out, the great head resting on the 
paws, another great creature, maneless, and by her, 
motionless, a pair of cubs. The Lion surely in my 
path — and there — I started, put up my fingers to brush 
from mine eyes the foolish fancy of my brain — there 
close to the Lion lay a calf — and not a foot from there 
a lamb — and all, all this strange company in a pro- 
found peaceful slumber. At first came the thought to 
flee — to turn swiftly from this seemingly dangerous 
place — but on my soul came a perfect assurance, and 
e'er I were aware I had passed close to the snake, 
stood by the lion, so standing in their midst — and then 
securely safe, stepping out, stood beyond them. And 
so continued my way — and before me the woods more 
thickly stood, I was entering again where the tall 



8 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

trees stood closer together and their thick branches 
overhead shut out the Hght of the brilhant sky. 

For overhead the heavens were without a cloud, full 
of stars, and from one portion of the sky, which I 
deemed the East, a strange peculiar reflected gleam — 
as if from a many hued sun, or moon — the light a 
mingling of the colors of the rainbow. Now as I 
stepped from the open to the darker place I suddenly 
stumbled against a gigantic body — bewildered for a 
moment — but instantly I knew that mass which barred 
my pathway was a living creature — yes, there a mighty 
white tusked elephant in slumber lay. He stirred not 
at my stumble over him — slept on all unconscious of 
my fall and fright — and; lo, my eyes, growing more 
accustomed to the twilight of the overhanging branch- 
es — beheld, all around me a sleeping herd of elephants. 
I turned not back, but right through the midst of the 
sleeping animals my feet went forward, turning aside 
now to the right, now to the left, to avoid treading on 
their feet and so found a safe passage way. They 
lay in every conceivable manner — all shapes, all sizes, 
long tusked fathers, smaller mothers and babies of all 
ages. On through a breadth of silent wood, with state- 
ly trees above my head — until at last I stood where the 
woods ended and the open country of hill, and dale, 
and valley, swept far away beyond my kin. But e'er 
I stepped to the open mine eyes again beheld — a beau- 
tiful spotted leopard, a black bear lying on the grass, 
all in slumber; and not a score of yards from them a 
group of half a dozen oxen, a flock of sheep — and. 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 9 

nay, would mine eyes credit it — there lay a yellow 
striped tiger stretched out in full; and there with his 
body lying on the tiger, as if on a mat, with a little 
.hand on the paw of the great cat — his curled head 
resting on the tiger's head — a boy child fast asleep — 
but the tiger's eyes shone like living balls of fire, 
watchful, keen, alert, watching the child's slumbers. 
He knew I was looking at the twain, for, lo, the 
graceful tail rose gently and patted the grass, as if by 
that sign he would say to me — I welcome you — be not 
afraid. 

I noticed that all the trees were very symmetrical, 
not scraggy in limb, nor distorted in the trunk — but 
trees which seemed to have been taken care of from 
their first sprouting. 

I was now approaching a clump of trees, in height 
of a more dwarfish appearance than those I had 
passed by ; there came to me the scent of ripening fruit 
— I was soon walking amid apple, peach and plum 
trees. I noticed quite a number of orange trees — in 
bud, in blossom and with fruit of all stages of ripen- 
ing. I plucked a peach — how luscious — it melted in my 
mouth like fresh sweet cream. 

And here again a surprise for on the ground I be- 
held some half a dozen sleeping forms — I stood sev- 
eral minutes to gaze on them — were they homeless, 
poor outcasts compelled to take shelter in the woods 
for want of house shelter? But a quick examina- 
tion dispelled such a thought — for the woman's dress 
was of rare purple, the man's dress bespoke no ways 



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of poverty — the four children of various sizes — a fam- 
ily group who had lain down to sleep in the woods. 
Were they then so far from human habitation that 
night had overtaken them? Yet their dress bore no 
soil, nor stain of travel — the rather they had come only 
a little distance and from sheer love of the open air 
had here taken repose — the flowers in the hands of 
the little ones, the chaplet of flowers around the moth- 
er's head — the branches of varied ripened fruits near- 
by, as if thrown down carelessly — all denoted not trav- 
elers but pleasure seekers. No watch dog, no guard 
to warn of any foeman, nor beast — it was a scene de- 
noting the utter absence of fear on the part of the 
entire family. As I passed on, not a score of paces 
away, a large beast stretched out full length, and by 
its side, his right hand entwined in the yellow mane — 
a youth and lion fast asleep, boon and fellow compan- 
ions — the bush end of the lion's tail covering the boy's 
feet. 

I went on — and soon before me stretched the open 
cultivated country. I had not wandered far until I 
came to, in the open field, a mighty heap of winnowed 
grain. And here a herd of cattle — oxen, cows and 
calves lying down peaceably at the edge of the grain 
heap, showing plainly that they had eaten a hearty 
meal not of the stubble but of the large kernels of 
wheat. And came the thought, surely I must be in an 
exceedingly fruitful country where the cattle can eat 
winnowed grain. 



CHAPTER II 
NO WATCHMAN CRIETH IN THE STREET 

E> ER the morning light tinted the East I stood in 
the City — stood evidently in the very center of 
the mart — but it was most assuredly a desert- 
ed City. From the time my feet entered its outskirts 
and all along the wide street, surely for a mile or 
more, not a person crossed my path nor looked at 
me from store, nor door, nor window. The streets 
ample and wide — Along the sidewalks trees of shade, 
standing there motionless, not a leaf stirring, as if 
they too slept. No policeman met I — and no sound 
of watchman's foot, nor voice. Here were buildings 
massive, stately with an air of stability. None of the 
buildings over three stories I should judge by the 
range of windows. A uniformity in the long line of 
buildings on either side — not but that the buildings 
differed in architectural effect, for indeed hardly any 
two buildings alike in design showing a wonderful 
display of multiplicity of .effect — but one and all 
built in a manner and of such material as would 
not seem aged had the summers and winters of a 
century kissed them. And this spot surely the cen- 
ter of the City, for in this place a wide circular space 
of ground, a plot of flowers in full bloom, with a large 
fountain, rich with carved figures and statuary, the 



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waters falling with a soft splash in the marble basins. 
Some trees of shade, not tall but rather dwarfish in 
height — still high enough for the passer by to linger 
under their shadows, there were seats for resting 
scattered all around the circle. All the streets radi- 
ated from this circle; and every street met at the 
outskirts if followed brought surely the feet to the 
central spot. 

I noticed one of the Buildings facing this pleasure 
and resting spot was most beautiful. Of highly pol- 
ished onyx stones — the columns on which the facade 
of the building rested of red and green porphyry — 
it was a building of simple lines yet of a rare mag- 
nificence. I went anear, and standing on the street 
right in front, saw the words in golden letters along 
facade Branch of The Bank Universal. A flight of 
marble steps, highly polished, led to the business floor 
— I ascended and was rather surprised to see the por- 
tals had no door, the entrance way stood open, no 
bar, nor chain to hinder. Just as my feet touched the 
level of the floor, I saw some animal crouched in the 
passage way which opened to the interior. A mon- 
ster dog surely — was this the watch dog? I hesitat- 
ed, and as I did the creature moved, slowly rose to 
its feet — and, behold, the largest and most beautiful 
leopard that I had ever seen. Slowly the creature 
came towards me, I could distinctly hear its purr, the 
purr of a pleased cat, the tail switched from side to 
side gracefully, and then it stopped, stretched out its 
paws, crouched down half way its head and forefront 



HOW THE KING BEIGNED IN AEIEL 13 

of body — was it about to spring on me? but no, one 
has seen a cat suddenly awaken from slumber stretch 
itself in such a manner — another minute and it was 
rubbing its head against my legs — softly purring like 
a pleased cat welcoming its master. It lifted up its 
eyes to mine — how they sparkled like a pair of jew- 
els — but no fierce glitter of hate nor rage there — the 
leopard was giving me a welcome. Unconsciously my 
hand patted the sleek, velvety head; and then, as if it 
wanted more sleep it crouched down taking no fur- 
ther notice of me. And so I entered in the building — 
the great hallway, graced by pillars, ran through the 
entire building — a most spacious and lofty hall — with 
large chambers on either hand, and down on either 
side, except where passage ways broke in, long wide 
marble counters, behind which no doubt in day time 
the men stood to do the service required by any per- 
son who called on them. On entering one of the 
chambers my eyes lit on long marble tables, or tables 
with boxes, the outer edges higher than the center 
and there a mighty pile of yellow metal — golden coins 
until one stood amazed at the amount. No door, no 
bar, no chain, no bolt, no vault, no strong box — but 
there millions on millions to the touch, to the handle 
of the comer. Where was the watchman, nay the 
score of watchmen? What wild madness for any 
owner to leave such almost uncountable wealth, scat- 
tered there to touch and sight of profane hands and 
eyes. I stood there — listened for cry or foot of guar- 
dian but over all a stillness most profound — nature 



14 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

asleep — yet no thought of death or desolation came 
to the mind, I knew, I felt a world of life was anear 
— but I could neither see, hear, nor feel of life's 
pulsations. My hand touched a coin — a broad gold 
piece — on one side a raised design showing an olive 
branch emblem of Peace, on the reverse — a lion with 
a single Hebrew word beneath — which I knew stood 
for — "J^i'i-^salem". I let the coin fall from my fin- 
gers and suddenly there was a shimmering, and clink- 
ing of gold pieces, as if a shower — it startled me — 
and yet the falling coin only happened to strike some 
coin which held many a coin in place — the clinking 
awoke some echos — for it ran around the chamber, 
then aloft as if chiming bells had borne the sound to 
lofty upper places, then the settled calm silence as 
before. And so this, the Bank where the City's 
treasure stood to open stare of every passer by, to 
touch of any wanderer's hand, whose footstep led 
them here. 

Out to the city street again — and as I passed the 
stores I noticed now not a door to hold the passers' 
feet from entering in. By the display in the windows 
this must be a jeweler's mart — I entered in and 
surely the place was all ablaze with jewels, piled here 
and there in trays on the counter, such a variety of 
blazing things — of every color dreamed or thought of 
— colored stones of colors I never saw before — and, 
as a boy would, I bathed my hands in the jewels, full 
of stones lifted hands, and poured them down a 
stream of wondrous light. Gems scattered around 
in almost studied confusion of size, design, polish — 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 15 

finished and unfinished stones — some showing the 
lapidary's unfinished work — perchance the evening 
closing hour had come e'er hand had finished the 
wanted design. And here no guardian — but the same 
silence. I touched some of the jewels — never had I 
touched such stones before, tenderly took up one — 
it was such a gracious one — it lay in the palm a 
bright red blaze — nay, it looked as if the outer cas- 
ing, glory held within, an imprisoned liquid light 
that ran hither and hither as if looking for some vein 
to escape. 

Again in the street — and this a store of Dry goods 
— I passed dov/n the way between the counters — 
such rich and rare silks, satins, brocades, such heaps 
of lace, most delicate, airy cobwebs of surely pat- 
terns exquisite. Bewildered at such profusion of 
stuff for women's wear, I had never seen nor dreamed 
of before. And so from store to store — from place 
to place — craftsman's handiwork displayed — and eve- 
rywhere the fear of theft seemed never had entered 
the owner's head. Everything lay as if let fall gently, 
suddenly from the hand of seller and buyer when a 
certain hour had come. As if seller and buyer walked 
out of shop, and store, without ever one thought of 
hiding or guarding the most precious things, a care- 
less act to do. And came the thought — no thief in all 
this City — the fear of wrong from any hand seems 
foreign to the owners of these things. But while I 
reveled mine eyes mid these unguarded treasures th.e 
morning had come — the moon had paled, and sun- 
shine lay up the street. 



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Hark ! a peal of bells — and now from every side — 
the joy bells ringing, as if chiming bells circled the 
City — yet distant chimes — but melodious, clear, that 
set the air palpitating with the motion of music. 

Whence came it? I saw neither Bells nor ringers 
— I beheld The Bank Building with a high tower it 
stood above the surrounding buildings — quickly I cli- 
tered, ran swiftly up the winding stairway — and, lo, 
I stood above the main circling buildings — and there 
all around the outskirts of the City, behold, the 
dwelling place of men. A distance — but so clear the 
atmosphere I could distinguish objects as if to mine 
eyes had been held the sharpest glass. And, lo, be- 
fore the doorway of every dwelling place, that I could 
see, stood human beings — of all ages — the Father, 
the Mother, the Boys, the Girls — Then suddenly it 
came — a sound of song of mighty volume — fdling all 
space, leaping upward, the glad song lark like — con- 
fusion and discord absent — thousands were singing 
— aye, a hundred thousand voices — bass, alto, sopra- 
no and tenor blending together — a song of thank- 
fulness and praise. I stood there thrilled in body, 
soul and spirit — drinking in every fiber — that melody 
sounding louder than the mighty ocean in wildest 
tumult- — but sweet as if a child had caught an angel's 
song from Paradise and sung it flawless. It ended — 
and it were like the closing of the lattice work of 
the gates of Paradise, so no sound came forth — and 
I descended as one intoxicated with joy, as if not 
treading on earth, but in palpitating air. 



CHAPTER III 

Bread, meat and fruit to all was free, 
And open wide heart's door — 
Who suppeth with the King shall see 
No want for ever more, 

SAUNTERING leisurely down one of the streets, 
stopping now and then at a store window to 
observe some strange novelty — suddenly was 
brought to my mind — that in all my City wanderings 
I failed to see three things — so prominent in all so 
called Christian Cities the world over — Namely: No 
Saloons, No Drug stores, and not a sign either on 
window, door, or hanging plate — telling where a Phy- 
sician, Doctor or Specialist could be found. Was I 
not mistaken on that point? — surely this Trinity that 
cursed and blest humanity was not absent — I had 
simply passed them in a fit of abstraction. I turned, 
went to the next steeet, and faced back to the cen- 
tering space with quickened footsteps — peering at 
every house, of either side of the street — at last I 
stood in the circle, swept my eyes keenly around — 
from top front window to basement — and there was 
no disputing the fact of the utter absence so far as 
I had noticed — of Dram Shop, Drug store and Doc- 
tor's sign. 



18 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

But I was no longer alone — the sound of many 
feet in the air, I saw scores of men coming up the 
various streets, some entering the distant stores, some 
entering the various buildings facing the circle — some 
entering in the bank. And quickly I noticed they 
were the Janitors, store cleaners — One thing again 
noticed I — not a single woman among them — They 
were all tall, well formed men, with a free, swing- 
ing, independent gait — and all the perfect picture of 
health. I could see that the work of sweeping, dust- 
ing etc. was quickly and rapidly performed. Yet not 
in silence — for from that store a snatch of melody — 
from this store the merry whistle of a heart free of 
care. And soon a louder tramp of feet, and troops 
of men came up the various streets entering in the 
different stores. And among the various hundreds of 
clerks not a single person under twenty years of age 
— and not a single woman. A business race of young 
men — and every face I beheld without the care 
worn look — without a frown on lip, in eye, or droop- 
ing corners of the mouth. And then I suddenly no- 
ticed for the first time — the utter absence of electric, 
Cable or horse cars. I looked along various streets 
but not a sign of a steel rail — so then without a doubt 
all these men had walked from their homes to their 
place of business. And such men — all perfect speci- 
mens of humanity — red cheeks, red lips, bright eyes, 
fresh faces, open, clear, with mostly a smile to greet 
the passing one. And all dressed neatly, some in 
loose garments, some in close fitting ones, of ma- 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 19 

terial as varied as colors in a rainbow. A very race 
of athletes — quick in step, firm in tread, swift of 
motion — a cripple, a deformed person of any kind 
not seen among the hundreds — aye, thousands now 
that could be covered by a sweeping glance of eye. 
And now the hum of machinery — the low buzz of 
countless wheels, and spinning shafts, and gliding belts 
— The work of the day had commenced. Then I 
noticed the absence of towering chimneys, and utter 
absence of trailing smoke. I would find the factor- 
ies. So in the direction where the loudest hum of 
wheels came from, my feet I turned. And soon a 
large building caught mine eye — not tall, but covering 
much ground, and many windowed, it stood with 
trees of shade flanking each side, and a space between 
street and building where grew countless flowers, 
some rich in color, and some rich in sense of sweet- 
ness. I entered one of the doors, a spacious room in- 
deed, of high ceiling, and cheerful with the light of 
a score of open windows — letting in the brilliant 
sunshine and the pure, invigorating morning air. And 
what a world of spindles — with cotton in all the va- 
rious processes of becoming thread — up a flight of 
stairs, and here another lordly chamber with a hun- 
dred looms weaving, and ever weaving fabrics of a 
score of colors, sizes, shapes, designs to clothe and 
make a service for humanity. And then the strange- 
ness of it — not a child either boy nor girl — aye, not a 
woman toiling in the entire building. All compara- 
tively young men, bright, keen, alert — cheerful faces. 



20 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

intently interested each man in his work. I wandered 
unquestioned up and down the building — beheld the 
rough cotton, the making of the thread, the dyeing of 
the various colors, the weaving, the assorting, the 
packing — and in every department an utter absence 
of loafing, carelessness, indifference — but all doing 
the very best, giving the very best thought of brain, 
the deftest working hands. And this went steadily 
on, no slavish service, but business linked with a 
pleasure of performing an alloted task with best that 
in them lay. 

Then a whistle — a score of whistles in the air — a 
sudden stoppage of wheels — noon had come — and time 
for noon time meal. Then each man to the Lavatory, 
the splashing of water, the rubbing of towels — and 
out, some alone, some in groups, all to the nearest 
restaurant for no cold lunches here, no one lingered in 
the building, no eating bits and scraps. I followed to 
a Restaurant and from the doorway saw the various 
tables, around which seated friends, joined in joke, in 
wit, in conversation. A good natured crowd, no curs- 
ing, no harsh word, no angry scowl if one table served 
before another. Here the utter absence of haste. Each 
and all contented for the other to be served — No spe- 
cial tables, no special bill of fare, no large or smaller 
portions. The meat rich and juicy, the vegetables 
fresh, the bread a dainty morsel, and the native wines, 
the milk, the tea, the coffee of the best and most deli- 
cious. Curiosity drew my feet to the circle — here surely 
the great magnates would lunch in state, but not so, for 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 21 

companionship blossomed here to a most healthy flow- 
er. The Managers sat with their cronies — who may be 
an artist, an author of world wide fame — or may be 
the lowest clerk — but a clerk who had the power to 
fascinate with conversation or social attractiveness, 
winning the heart and mind of others to cheerful 
comradeship. Then here an utter absence of foolish 
dignity — a socialism of the purest kind, but not of 
the absurd kind, that would make all mankind of a 
dull level. One could readily see — that men were 
reverenced for the nobler gifts of humanity, a hom- 
age paid to some for intellectual attainments — natur- 
al gifts that God gave to some, withholding from 
others — but when the Greatest met the smaller it 
was in one common bond of brother ship — brothers 
all loving one another — Some brothers acknowledg- 
ing a superiority, a heaven given gift given to anoth- 
er brother- — a homage paid sincerely, a homage re- 
ceived without pride of soul and domineering man- 
ner. And then no seeming eagerness to rush back to 
toil — surely an ample space of time to rest of any 
weariness from early toil. Then a whistle, a hundred 
whistles — and back to Bank, to store, to factory — 
and again in the whirring of ten thousand wheels in 
the air. Did I feel hungry? when the toilers had de- 
parted I entered in one of the Restaurants. I sat down 
by a table and up came a waiter — or evidently the 
head waiter if not the manager. With a smile : "Do 
you wish to be served. Friend!" I nodded my head — 
in a few minutes a good repast, smoking, sat before 



22 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

me. I ate heartily, everything tasting most delicious 
to the palate — good fare and good cooking. When I 
had finished — suddenly came the thought — Where- 
with to pay with? I vainly searched my pockets — 
not a single coin. Evidently the manager nearby no- 
ticed my confusion. He stood there smiling: "No 
money, my friend — let it not trouble thee — No man 
in The King's realm may want for bread. Nay, no 
apology — thy word is enough — I think thou art a 
stranger in our gates ? And you know the King said : 
Tt is more blessed to give than receive,' therefore on 
me the favor conferred, as you have honored my ta- 
ble, so think not of future payment." 



CHAPTER IV 
WERE ALL MEN LIARS? 

I HAD some conversation with mine host; and per- 
ceiving I was a total stranger in new surround- 
ings — he kindly said that he was at my service 
for sometime (as his cares for the day about over) 
to answer as best he could any questions I should 
ask. He proposed to sit in the shade near the great 
central fountain, and there on an easy seat, side by 
side we sat. A most delightful spot — with the music 
of the falling water murmuring in our ears. I ob- 
served : 

"You must have some very rich men in this City?" 

"Rich ! well that is as how you regard riches — you 
remember, 'a man's life consisteth not in the abun- 
dance of the things which he possesseth.' " 

'T mean in monetary matters, gold, stocks, bonds — " 

"Stocks ! Bonds ! What are they — I do not under- 
stand your terms?" 

I looked at him in amazement — he decidedly had 
the appearance of an educated man — was he joking? 

No, the open face showed plainly he did not catch 
my meaning. 

"Well, have you not men of very large fortune — 
property, like farm lands and buildings — men who 



24 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

control your railways, steamships, telegraph, tele- 
phones and the like?" 

"Why, no; why should we have such men? The 
richest man in this City is Manager of yon bank — he 
gets some twenty thousand a year — he owns his own 
homestead, some ten acres with buildings — if ought 
else I know not — and what would he possibly want of 



more 



There was no mistake, from the man's face one 
would judge that this man was speaking the truth — 
I fairly gasped — the richest man in the City only get- 
ting twenty thousand a year — and that regarded as 
enough! 'Then where do the millionaires of this 
country reside — where are the very rich men — the 
men who control Trusts and Monopolies ?" 

The man's face clouded up — as if I had spoken 
in a strange tongue and could not grasp my meaning. 

''Stranger, you are using terms not in common use ; 
no doubt when a youth at school I learned of them, 
but when a man is three hundred years old he may 
be pardoned if he deem obsolete, words not used in 
daily vocabulary — and so forgotten." 

I arose quickly — what a mistake I had made in 
thinking this man one of understanding — he was a 
most notorious .liar, or a lunatic. I arose in disgust 
with myself. He saw the look on my face — and 
gently demanded: "What is the matter — Have I of- 
fended you?" 

I answered rather indignantly: 



HOW THE KING BEIGNED IN ARIEL 25 

* Sir, do you take me to be a fool — to listen to 
such drivelling? — A very good day to you!" 

And I walked quickly away. He called after me, 
but I paid not the slightest attention to him. This 
man of fifty to say he was three hundred years old! 

I was fleet of walk, and soon left this three-hun- 
dred-year-old prevaricator behind. Again the whirl 
and burr of wheels caught my ear — my feet had 
brought me to another factory site. Again an ample 
space of ground, low trees of shade, beautiful flow- 
ers, a long two story building of cut stone of consid- 
erable architectural beauty — showing that the work- 
manship had neither been of a hasty character, nor 
slip shod in any manner, but a building that only 
skilled mechanics could complete. The open door 
invited my entering. It was a shoe factory. The 
very large room housed a great many machines, 
machines that worked fairly silently, without loud 
noise — and each machine tended by a full grown 
man. In the entire building not a girl or woman, 
nor a youth under age. The first machine started 
the building of a shoe — the last machine at the oth- 
er end of the building turned out a perfect shoe. 
Here each machine continued the work started by 
the first — the forming shoe passed along the line — 
falling at last at the Packer's table. The first thought, 
how large and airy, how clean, how neat the room — 
the second thought — what a splendid body of men — 
each the picture of health — a perfect specimen of man- 
hood. Each stood at his machine with alert wide awake- 



26 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

ness, quick of eye, of hand, of brain, working and 
striving for a bit of perfect work as was possible to 
turn out. No slighting, no careless handling, but a 
steady determination to do the best that in him was. 
A cheerful, bright evidently happy and contented set 
of men. No hard set features, no bloated faces, no 
scowling face, no sneering lips, nor nostril, no sour 
looking, disappointed, dissatisfied, reckless, careless 
set of men. It did one good to gaze into their faces — 
of different nationalities plain to see, some stouter 
than others, some a trifle taller, but on the whole a 
stalwart full chested, full winded, brawny set of men 
— every one with intelligence stamped on his features. 
I had never seen such a body of men before collected 
under one roof. A man — evidently the Manager had 
come forward and greeted me with: 

'Teace to you, my friend!" I returned his saluta- 
tion with a bow and questioned: 

"You have picked your men surely !" 
'Ticked my men, what do you mean by that?" 
"How otherwise could you have obtained such a 
splendid body of men except by careful selection." 

The manager smiled with a half puzzled look on 
his face. 

"Why should I have to pick my men — are they 
not of the common ordinary height, build and intel- 
ligence ?" 

"Then surely your City is blest above all others!" 
"Not that I know of, sir: one may go to the four 
points of the compass and find them anywhere — " 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ABIEL 27 

''Impossible ! I have traveled too much of this earth 
to take this without qualification — But how is it that 
you have not the usual number of women, girls and 
boys to — " 

''Women, Girls, Boys — What do you mean, sir, I 
have been manager in this factory for over one hun- 
dred and fifty years — in fact all my working days 
have been spent in a shoe factory, and never yet have 
I seen woman, girl or boy working in a factory." 

I looked at the man in blank astonishment — was — 
was every man I happened to converse with — a liar ! 
One hundred and fifty years — the man was not over 
forty — not a day. And this fellow was also poking 
fun at me — What was there in my appearance to make 
them imagine I would listen to their nonsense — I 
would not be made a butt of their jests. Without a 
word I turned abruptly and strode from the room. 

At the door I glanced back — every man in the room 
was standing idle at his machine — they, with the man- 
ager, were gazing after me, astonishment clearly de- 
picted on each countenance. What was the matter 
with myself? did I not hear correctly? I listened to 
a bird who sat on one of the shade trees singing a 
pretty thrilling — I listened to it never so carefully to 
bird song before — without a doubt my hearing was 
acute — why did these two men make a jest of me? 
But the air, the sky, the beautiful trees and flowers 
wooed me quickly from my ill favor — one could not 
help feeling full of cheer, and forgiveness, and for- 
getfulness of unpleasant thoughts in such surround- 



28 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

ings. What happy faces around me. I was going to- 
wards the outskirts, and from the outskirts weie com- 
ing many people — the most of them grown women of 
all ages. And such women — not a sickly feeble one 
among them. What tall, well shaped, strong, hearty 
looking women. Some alone, some in groups, but all 
full of health, such a carriage, swing of person — one 
almost could say — Amazonians — but no, they all looked 
such womanly women. Such sweet, bright, modest yet 
fearless faces, such bright eyes, such ample foreheads, 
such coils of hair — ah me, they did one a world of 
good to see. And dresses — aye, dresses of rich ma- 
terial, but plain, simple, but with simplicity of mag- 
nificence — The rich material worn without ostentation, 
conceit, or pride. And such varied colors, such effect, 
aye, it delighted the eyes to see simplicity, modesty 
gentleness, wedded to such magnificence (the wearers 
seemingly all unconscious) that in my country only 
Queens and wealthy ladies could afford such. To- 
wards the City — no doubt to buy, to bargain and pur- 
chase things to make themselves still more beautiful 
— if that could be. W^omen of wealth they must be- 
then where their carriages — where the street cars? 
these women walked as if used to such, as if they loved 
it, as if this walking was enjoying a luxurious pleasure. 
They passed by — and I on to the place of residence. 
Every house detached. Every house in its spot of 
green — its trees, its shrubs, its flowers. Such varied 
architecture — it was a cunning brain to devise such 
manifold ideas of home buildings. And then the chil- 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN AEIEL 29 

dren — they were everywhere — boys, girls by the scores, 
the hundreds, all sizes, ages, rosy cheeked, bright eyes 
— aye, but the heart sang out in joy to see such sight 
as this — no cripple, no stunted one, no timorous, no 
weak, no pale, sallow complexioned one — aye, it was a 
very cheery sight to see — and I could not help saying 
out: God bless the children! 

Homes ! Homes ! Homes ! Why they ran ahead of 
me, were on every side of me — and when I saw such 
cheerful, comfortable looking homes — I felt my soul 
was crying in very joy. No tenements, no barrack 
looking rookeries, no flats, no foul alleys, no dirt cov- 
ered houses, no broken panes, no faded, broken clap- 
boards — no broken windows filled with old clothes, no 
paper patched windows, no smoky blackened walls — 
aye, my soul, the pity of that grim world from whence 
I came! and this, and this in homes — was paradise 
indeed. 

And now a glimpse of the open world — and here at 
last the shining tracks of Railways, the crowded 
freight houses, the rushing to and fro of Electric En- 
gines, and passenger, and freight cars — tram cars com- 
ing down the alleys between every street from the 
business places up in the city ladened with merchan- 
dise of every description — to be sent to the various 
towns, villages and homes adjacent to this City. Evi- 
dently in the public streets no wagons or tram cars 
for the carrying of merchandise allowed — all traffic 
confined to the very wide alleys running from the cir- 
cle to the outskirts — Hence the public streets alone for 



30 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

human use — where without danger one could come 
from the dwelling places to the business-down-town- 
heart of the city without meeting a single obstruction 
— or dangerous crossing. But as yet all was of a 
mysterious character to me — so unlike my world of 
yesterday — my world full of open sin and violence, of 
crime, of fretting poverty — a world of sick, and crip- 
ples — a world of slaves — where oft the hardest toil but 
won a pittance for today's wants, and provided no 
bread for the morrow. The world of unrest, of pain, 
of discontent, of unhappiness — where rich monsters 
lapped up the earnings of the poor, sucked down their 
strength, their manhood, their brawn, their beauty — 
and threw sucked humanity on the ash piles to suffer 
and to die. A world made by God — but, said unbelief, 
"Forsaken by Him, and given to the Evil One to work 
his pleasure on a pain shrieking humanity!" 

My world was shadowed by Death, and tornado, 
and shaken by Earthquake, blasted by blight and lo- 
cust and famine — cradled in crime, nursed by wretch- 
edness — and abhorred seemingly by High Heaven. 
And this world — Whose World ? Who would tell me, 
I was an ignorant child — I strutted away in anger 
from the two persons who would tell. Nay, I shall not 
scorn the third — the first that comes shall tell me of 
things I know not, and I shall listen to the end, no 
matter how tall, how gigantic the Lie ! 



CHAPTER Y 

THE WANDERING MINSTREL 

Lo, to and fro o'er Earth he goes — 
And from his lips on reed there flozvs 
The magic strain, that Bliss bestozvs. 

I HAD heard no footstep — yet I felt the presence 
of some one behind me. I turned to see, not ten 
feet from me, standing, gazing at me, a most sin- 
gular pair. Was one a man or woman ? from the form 
I should judge a man, from the sweet winsomeness of 
the face I should judge a woman. The figure fairly 
tall, rather broad of shoulder, narrow at hips (there- 
fore a man) but the whole figure slight to the average 
man I had beheld in the City, graceful in poise, and 
with a singularly attractive personality. The head cov- 
ered with a scarlet colored cap — a single eagle feather 
pinneci to the side of cap by a most magnificent 
amethyst, that glowed and flashed light like a star. 
The hair, yellow, fell somewhat down on the shoul- 
ders on a broad scarlet collar edged with lace, the col- 
lar fastened around the neck with strings that ended 
in tassels. The upper garment of gobelin, green, beau- 
tiful cloth — tight fitting gathered at the waist by a 
belt — the clasp a bmich of rare diamonds, the sleeves 
wide at the top narrowed at the wrist with cuffs of 



32 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

rare lace. The light breeches of same colored cloth 
met at the knees — then tight fitting dark stockings; 
on feet, Shoes tanned with the hair outside, close fit- 
ting, elastic, pliable without our clumsy sole and heel, 
and for buckles each a sparkling ruby. The face of a 
youth — the high, broad forehead, the open, clear, grey 
eyes, the pupil often changing to a darker shade — the 
nose straight, the nostrils thin and delicate, the mouth 
rather wide with the lower lip full and wine colored. 
No hair upon the face. And his companion, standing 
close to his side, a lordly lion perfect in every limb — 
with long mane, and great large liquid eyes — the mas- 
ter's left hand on the lion's head — together a perfect 
picture. 

The youth, cap in hand, made a graceful bow — and 
a voice clear and sweet as the song of a lark on sum- 
mer morning: 

"May the Peace and Blessings of The King rest 
upon thee!" 

I bowed ; but in astonishment said never a word. 

*T preceive thou art a stranger in Hillah; thy face 
denotes thou art puzzled on many things; may I be 
thy servant to explain to thine ears of anything thou 
knowest not of." 

He had held out his hand, the fingers long, slender 
and delicate, but as they grasped mine, the pressure 
of them brought to my mind "Fingers of steel" — there 
was amazingly subtle strength there. 

"Yes, a stranger — interested — startled at the strange 



HOW THE KmG EEIGNED IN ARIEL 33 

manners around me ; and so far have found no reli- 
able person to explain." 

''Reliable!" he exclaimed — ''How? — the lips of the 
dwellers of Hillah are clean of lies ; and as to deceive 
a stranger — is something passing new — in what par- 
ticular, my dear sir?" 

"Why one man seemingly fifty years — declared he 
was some three hundred years old; another seemingly 
forty at most, said he had been foreman in a shoe 
factory one hundred and fifty years! — What reliance 
can one place on such testimony as this? — had I asked 
them other questions undoubtedly their answers would 
have been equally absurd !" 

His face had changed during my protest from one 
of seriousness to that of merriness. 

"I see, I see!" he exclaimed. Then turning to the 
lion at his side, he demanded — "Ho, Prince, how old 
art thou ?" 

Immediately the lion's paw was stretched out — and 
it traced in the dust at my feet two characters — fig- 
ures plainly — 99, and the lion looked up in my face, 
and bent his head as if in confirmation. 

The Youth eyed me as I read — and putting his hand 
gently on my hand said: "Nay, kind sir, none hath 
deceived thee as to their ages — Prince is indeed 99 — 
and of the two men — both told the truth." 

Conviction dawned on me — then in what world was 
I? surely on earth — above the blue sky — the dust — 
the earth below my feet, the trees, the shrubs, the 
flowers, all as of old but now in more glorious perfec- 



34 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

tion. But suddenly I heard a happy voice, a child's 
voice cry out: Ricardo! Ricardo!" 

It was taken up by a score, a hundred, flying from 
lip to lip until a thousand voices of children on all sides 
rang with the name. Trooping they came with laugh 
and shout — they surrounded the man and lion. Such 
shaking of hands — such climbing and crowding on the 
lion's back — and both man and beast thoroughly en- 
joying the welcome. 

''Ricardo! Ricardo! play us a song!" cried one Ht- 
tle fellow — the cry taken up — and in less time than it 
takes to tell — they had fallen back a few feet, a cir- 
cle most pleasant to behold, happy, merry and now 
expectant little folks all around. The lion stretched 
himself on the ground and soon every part of his 
body covered with children except the large head, and 
that one child had crowned with flowers. And Ricar- 
do — for evidently this his name — with a ringing laugh 
of assent, drew from an inner pocket of his dress — a 
slender reed — it was a simple pipe that could have 
been cut in any pool or margin of lake — It lay at his 
lips — and such melody! It were vain to describe 
— what was it, whence came it, was he an angel or 
man of human birth? Did he play an hour — or just 
one minute — or was it only a brief second that the 
thousand children stood there to listen? The carol 
of a lark, the love breathings of a nightingale poor 
to this. ''Again, good Ricardo; again, good Ricardo!" 

And with a winsome smile he played again. I 
watched his face — the eyes were closed as if he 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 35 

beheld in the shutting the notes of music composed 
in heaven — and held to his inner eyes by unseen 
angel's hands. He played another — and still another. 
Then stopped — 

*'I have done little ones, Peace dwell with you I 
must away. — " 

The reed was hidden in the vest, his arm glided into 
mine — and in a few minutes we had passed through 
the children who parted from us reluctantly — but with 
shouts of thankfulness — for tho' they were very fa- 
miliar with him — all seemed to know when Ricardo 
spoke he was to be obeyed. 



CHAPTER VI 

/ smell the scent of the odorous sea — 
It is calling, calling, calling for me. 

QUR faces turned towards the heart of the City, 
arm in arm we strode on, he had a quick, light 
step, a swinging motion that covered the ground 
quickly. He was well known — every passer by gave 
him greetings — evidently in Hillah his was a welcome 
face. Men and women nodded and smiled — and I 
could see that many a pretty maiden blushed, and 
looked doubly coy when they beheld him anear. Ri- 
cardo was the very essence of gentle politeness — his 
cap in hand, and bowing constantly his way was 
marked as if by a constant ovation. It did not take us 
long with such rapid strides to gain the circle — and 
near the fountain Ricardo drew me to a seat. He said : 

"Here let us converse: I know you have a score of 
questions to ask me, your face betrays your surprise 
at—" 

Then he stopped — for some voice had a minute be- 
fore cried out "Ricardo!" — now it was tossed in the 
air by a hundred voices, swelling and growing until a 
thousand men and women were crying: 

"Ricardo, Ricardo!" 

Lo, I saw men and women pressing towards us — 
saw them coming from the Bank, from the stores. 



38 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

flocking out from every street to where we sat. Hands 
everywhere reached out to him — voices crying: "Play 
for us, Ricardo, play for us !" 

The cry rose and swelled — until it seemed every 
tongue rang with that request : 

"Ricardo, play for us !" 

He stood bowing to men and women, cool, collected, 
but with a face glowing with happiness and pleasure 
at such a reception — for surely such a gracious com- 
pliment when men from desk, and counter, and work 
bench leave business cares behind and meet with shouts 
of gladsomeness a man of music. He drew from his 
inner vest the common slender reed — and then the cry : 
"On the pedestal, on the pedestal, that all may see and 
hear !" 

In a minute brawny arms and hands lifted him up 
on the pedestal of a bronze group of animals which 
stood near the fountain — in a minute the fountain 
ceased to play some one had turned off the water 
valve. Then such a hush — hardly a stir in all that 
mighty gathering — all listening for the first sweet note, 
all eyes turned to the player who stood out bravely in 
sight of all. The reed lay to his lips — again I saw his 
eyes were closed as if his inner sight were reading 
from the heavenly note book held by angel's hands. 

Ah, the melody, ah, the rare, sweet melody, spell 
bound — how sweet — alas, how short, and yet full ten 
minutes he played on before he took the reed from his 
lips — the very air palpitated with applause — men and 
women crowding round the statue calling out their 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 39 

praise and asking more — more melody. And there he 
stood smiHng and bowing, happy in the thought that 
he was making others happy — giving them a pleasure 
without money and without price. Again the reed to 
lip — and again the intoxicating melody, the liquid mel- 
ody that all hearts were drinking in. And melody fol- 
lowed melody — he seemed neither fatigued, nor tired, 
nay, the rather inspired by the occasion. 

Suddenly at the close of one of the pieces, a loud 
bell vibrated — then it seemed as if more than a hun- 
dred chimes were set aringing — It was the hour for 
closing Banks, and stores, and factory, at this glad 
bell ringing the labor of every toiler in Hillah was 
finished for the day. Ricardo hearing, threw up his 
hand with a farewell gesture and slid the reed to the 
inside vest — but a mighty roar from the multitude: 
''Ricardo, one more, Ricardo, one more — Good Ri- 
cardo, prince of melody, one more tune !" 

He hesitated, half way turned to leap from the 
pedestal — but the cries were so hearty, so full of en- 
treaty, that out again the slender reed — again the 
reed to lips — and surely this the simplest, rarest, and 
most delightful of all. 

It was finished, quick as a flash he leaped from the 
pedestal and stood by my side. Arm in arm once 
more — and he cried out cheerily. 

"Room, good friends, room for Ricardo's guest — 
make away, and hold us not!" 

And just as the children had obeyed him, so the 
fathers and mothers of the children quick to do his 



40 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

bidding — and to the street where he turned his face 
a pathway made; and so we went forth, a happy 
press of men and women on either side — all loud in 
praise, thanking him for his melody. He cap in hand 
bowing right and left, stepping on with a princely 
dignity — but affable to the finger tips — smiles wreath- 
ing his face. At last we had left the crowd behind — 
we were in a comparatively quiet street. Suddenly 
he stopped and sniffed the air — and cried out like a 
school boy, with intense delight: 

"I smell the scent from the odorous sea 
It is calling, calling, calling for me!" 

Then suddenly clasping me tighter cried out : 

''Do let us go to the sea — come we shall have a 
sail on the long wide sweeping waves — It will be de- 
licious — pray thee, good friend, to come!" He looked 
so pleadingly in my face — as if I had the right of for- 
bidding such. ''Nothing would give me more pleasure 
— I love the sea." 

He pressed my hands with both of his as if to 
thank me — as if I had conferred a gracious boon to 
him. 

"Thanks, friend guest, thanks, we shall have a glo- 
rious time — the moon lit waters will well repay you. 
Come, Prince old fellow, quick march!" He gaily 
cried to the old stately lion — and arm and arm we 
two — the three of us set out with quickened pace. 

We soon reached the outside of the City — and from 
this side the ocean could be seen — It lay between two 
headlands — a wide stretch of beach; and the stately 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 41 

masts of hundreds of vessels, riding in the open bay, 
and at the quays, and docks, met the view. The long 
walk did not seem to make me tired, the bracing at- 
mosphere, the pure fresh air made walking a delight, a 
recreation. And as we neared the beach the sailor 
man and fisher folk knew him well. Along the street 
which led to the shore nearly every passer by smiled, 
and lifted hand to cap — giving Ricardo a captain's 
salute. I noticed how neat and clean was ever}' 
house we passed — and again the utter absence of the 
low saloons and "groggeries" — with the poor lost 
women sirens wooing men to folly and destruction — 
not one of such a kind here ! — I noticed with a glad 
and happy heart. Past the long wide Wharfs on which 
stood the warehouses in which stored the freight from 
the mighty vessels at the edge of the docks — What a 
rich spicy smell — a hundred scents from Orient and 
Occident — the smell of the pine, the sea, even the tar 
— all a very ambrosia to the nostril. All the docks 
were silent now, labor ended for the day. And on, 
until the wide sandy beach lay before us. The fisher 
folk were about to go homeward, but when a group 
saw Ricardo half a dozen voices at once shouted out — 

"Do you want a boat, Ricardo!" 

He nodded his head — and trooping they came. 

"Choose whose you will, Ricardo — without mon- 
ey or without price, O King of Melody!" 

He motioned to the nearest boat — in a minute a 
dozen hands had rushed it down the beach, it was in 
the water, a great brawny fellow had set the mast, a 



42 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

sail spread, the tiller in place and ready for our ac- 
ceptance. The act a superb compliment showing how 
this Ricardo was beloved by this rough fisher folk. 
We three were in the boat — but e'er we parted from 
the strand out came the reed — set to lips and indeed 
it was a wonderful melody with which Ricardo 
thanked his fisher folk. 

Out on the bay — we passed such tall, large and 
gallant vessels, steamers, crafts of every kind — and 
hardly a vessel but as we passed near had some one 
to cry out: — 

"Prince Ricardo, peace to thee and thine!" 



CHAPTER VII 
HOW RICARDO TOLD THE STORY OF THE KING 

And so The King bestows the gift 
That human praise to Him shall lift. 

SUCH an evening — it was the evening of my life — 
in that boat on the sea, with a celebrated musi- 
cian, and a lion, for companions. The perfect 
closing of a perfect day. The sea was calm — not a 
white tipped wave on the open world of waters to 
which our prow was turned — nothing except the swell 
that ever and anon lifted us slightly higher, then the 
deeper depression — the sun sinking in the west paint- 
ed the clouds and atmosphere with glorious tints and 
colors — colors and tints constantly changing in beauty 
and delight. The sun was seemingly sinking in the 
western sea, afar off, and its rays shot across the tide, 
lightening up the waters until there seemed to be a 
passage way o'er which we were to sail until we float- 
ed into the heart of the sun. A pathway of gold — 
even in some motions of the waves on which the sky 
colors flashed as if a wide spread carpet of crimson 
gold. 

We sailed on and on — our eyes fixed on the sun — 
the gateway of a castle of gold — the entrance way to 
the Paradise of God. And, lo, the clouds ever chang- 



44 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

ing — now formed as an innumerable company of 
angels — showed forms of crimson horsemen and gold- 
en chariots — all speeding towards the gateway of Life 
and Immortality — the passage way that guided the 
weary feet to the eternal Kingdom — the Kingdom of 
Rest from fretting and care — but the Kingdom where 
angels and mortals never grew tired of serving in the 
Blessed ministry of Love. Behind us a fair scene — 
the far away hills that yet reflected the glory of the 
sun — hills clad with brave trees — and emerald green 
with grassy pasture. Further down — the City — the 
many, many structures embowered in trees — the long 
line of beach — the harbor full of ships — sails furled — 
that seemed as if painted on canvas — the two promon- 
tories — on whose sharp craggy points, ever and anon, 
could be seen flags of white as if waved to and fro — 
the swell of sea bursting on the rocks throwing up in- 
cense of feathery spray. 

We two sat side by side in the stern — and at the 
prow was Prince, the Lion, his great head high over 
the boat looking like an image cast in bronze, his face 
sternly fixed as if on some object far ahead in our 
pathway. 

And so the sun sank from sight in the ocean's bed 
— ^but the light still marvelously fair, for to the left 
the large full moon stood in a sweep of sky on which 
not a cloud, even as large as the hand of a man. And 
to the west the clouds that seemed to have hovered 
over the sun faded from the sight — so that from sweep 
to sweep of the horizon it was a fleckless sky that met 
the eye. 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 45 

Were we in the current of the sea that swept us out- 
ward, or were we in the soft gentle trade wind which 
bellowed the little sail and wafted us — as for me I 
knew not where, aye, and in sooth, I did not care 
where we drifted. Out on the ocean, the hills — the 
land had shaded down to a line fast getting impercept- 
ible on the horizon. So o'er the moonlit, softly un- 
dulating swell of the sea we went a perfectly happy 
company — no more peaceable one ever adrift on that 
silver lit expanse. 

I chanced to turn mine eyes eastward — the sight 
that met my gaze filled me with speechless astonish- 
ment and awe! Was it a mirage? if so how won- 
drously beautiful! Aurora Borealis! nay, a thousand 
times nay, such but a paltry thing to this amazing won- 
der ! A thousand Rainbows ! nay, such could not have 
made such a splendor. It seemed to me as if double 
pyramids flamed and hung in the sky. Two pyramids 
base to base, with the lower one turned upside down. 
The top of the lower pyramid seemed as if standing 
out of the sea. The lower pyramid looked as if com- 
posed of enormous slabs of stone, twelve different 
layers, each layer of a different color, of equal height 
but varying in length. The lower stone, or slab, or 
layer, to be sure the smallest; the next layer of stone 
overlapping that below; there was no visible joining 
tho* the length seemed as if hundreds of miles, and so 
on, the next stone overlapping that, each higher one 
overlapping the lower, until the last overlapped the 
lower stone below. On the twelfth stone seemed to 



46 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN AEIEL 

rest a very high wall — a jasper colored wall pierced at 
stated intervals by three most extraordinary gateways. 
Rising from within the wall, resting on the largest 
stone of the reversed pyramid — another pyramid shot 
up to an apex — A golden colored Crystal — a, jasper 
stone almost dazzling to behold. It was a thousand 
miles away I judged, if not more, but the light that 
streamed from that glory made impossible an utterly 
dark night wherever the clear white rays fell, even if 
moon and stars never more swam to gaze. I gazed, 
and gazed, afraid each moment The Glory would van- 
ish, would fade, for was it not a hallucination, a build- 
ing of golden mist and vapor. But ah, a deception of 
the brain that the eye could feast upon forever, for the 
flashing beauty of the many colored stones made such 
a blending of colors that no human tongue could de- 
scribe. But I gazed, and the wonder faded not; and 
still feeding heart and soul with mine eyes, I found my 
tongue, grasping Ricardo's arm, I cried : 

"Look! Look! can God make such a Wonder!" 
Ricardo turned — a smile lit up his face, I could see 
the light from that far off glory dancing as it were 
on his features — he doffed his cap, and bowing, rever- 
ently said: 

"It is the Palace Home of The Great King!" 
I felt Ricardo's hand upon me, instinctively I knew 
of his desire, we knelt together side by side with bowed 
head in adoration — He slowly said : 

"Blessing, and Glory, and Honor, be unto Him who 
sitteth on the Throne and unto The Lamb forever and 
ever. Amen !" 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 47 

And this Amen supplemented by a sudden rumble 
as if a clap of thunder had suddenly pealed from the 
head of the boat — Ricardo stirred not — with head still 
bent — I looked swiftly to the brow of tht boat — It was 
the Lion's voice that had joined in the praise — the 
beast had made his impressive voice accord with our, 
Amen. That roar resounded far over the waters — 
the sea the Air vibrated — and an echo came back re- 
peating the Amen — from whence I knew not. And in 
the boat, on the open sea, that beautiful night I learned 
something of the Renovated Earth. For Ricardo had 
said : 

*'And now, friend mine, tell me of all that is thine 
heart to know, and as best in me lies, to answer shall 
be my glad desire." 

"Then first as to the government of the City left 
behind?" 

*T shall be brief. Tho' the world is now ruled by 
An Autocrati — with Princes of Provinces, and Cities 
under Him — yet the management of the country left 
in a great measure in the hands of the People. For 
instance, yon City is divided into twelve districts, each 
district hath a representative elected by a popular vote. 
But remember no parties — bitterly opposed to each oth- 
er and belittling each other by word, and pen, and act. 
The people of the district may be divided as to their 
choice of a man but the ballot decides that. These 
twelve men are the fathers of the City — making laws, 
with power to levy taxes, build needed houses, road- 
ways — all public improvements. They are elected for 



48 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 

seven years. On their first gathering they selected a 
man — ofttimes one of their own number, ofttimes some 
outside man of broad judgment, spoken well of, and 
well thought of — above reproach in word and deed. 
He is elected the Governor of the City. He is re- 
sponsible for the carrying out faithfully the wishes of 
the twelve Delegates — He, the overseer, brings to their 
notice any new works that he deems demanded by the 
Public. The salary is not large, nothing to make a 
man covet it for aught else than the honor. As to 
bribery or wrong doing, such is impossible, and quick- 
ly punished. For over every City The King has ap- 
pointed a Risen Saint, as a Prince. He is the advisor, 
and watcher over of every interest of public weal. He 
never interferes with the wills and wishes of the peo- 
ple, delegates, or governor, unless such transgress The 
Written Law. Should a point of law, or of order, 
or of right of property, be brought before the Gov- 
ernor — he should judge according to the Written Law 
proscribed by The King — but if his interpretation dis- 
puted by ^ither of the contestants then the matter 
brought before The Prince for ruling. Hardly ever 
a case tried before him but both contestants see and 
acknowledge the justice of his ruling — for his judge- 
ment is ever a righteous one. But should a matter 
arise wherein one contestant was not satisfied — he 
had ever the right to appeal the case — to the very 
court and judgment seat of The King Himself — 
that the finality. Political corruption impossible, for 
if a bribe offered or taken, on that minute the guilty 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 49 

parties immediately summoned before The Resident 
Prince. And no lawyers here to defend, nor brow 
beat, lawyers were useless — for the Risen Saint had 
power to read the secret thoughts of any wrong doer 
— and the wrong could not be hid. Judgment was 
passed immediately — and disgrace overshadowed the 
guilty ones until their future course showed they had 
thoroughly repented — and then immediately pardon 
and forgiveness given. One was afraid to steal, or lie, 
for that wrong which w^as done in the most secret 
chamber either in night's darkness, or in sun glitter 
and glare, was instantly known by the Risen Saint no 
matter where he was." 

''Then can the Resident Prince, this Risen Saint, 
read all man's minds as an open book?" I asked. 

"Nay, friend, nay, there is the graciousness of The 
King — tho' the Risen Saint possessed of an awful in- 
sight into human affairs, and tho' capable of perform- 
ing miracles, it is impossible for him to read the 

MIND OF ANY ONE MAN, WOMAN, OR CHILD, UNLESS 

THAT PERSON HAS COMMITTED A WRONG ! The llUman 

soul is not violated in any manner — each soul can only 
be read by The King — a man's mind and soul is his 
own secret place — a threshold over which none may 
pass. But if a wrong committed against another then 
the guilty soul cannot hide its guilt from the sight of 
the Resident Prince." 

''But suppose a man goes on persistently in his wick- 
edness how long will such be tolerated? Have you 
now no jails, no penitentiary to keep the transgres- 
sor?" 



50 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

"Nay, no jails, no penitentiary, o'er all the broad 
earth. Crime of any kind is of very rare exception. 
I have not heard of a murder in a hundred years — 
and then the murderer was immediately slain. With 
the binding of Satan for the thousand years the earth 
is comparatively free from crime, and if crime com- 
mitted it is immediately uncovered, and the penalty 
must immediately be settled. What then a need of 
police force, nor detective, nor prison — Every one is 
aware that the Residence Prince knows immediately 
of the crime. And indeed The King must inform the 
Prince of crime meditated on — for I know where men 
have been sent for and privately closeted with the 
Prince, and have confessed afterwards, that they had 
been warned not to harbor certain thoughts nor wrong 
doing otherwise punishment would follow. So sin is 
checked in its most incipient stage. And in answer to 
your question how long a person could go on sinning — 
just one hundred years — when the Sinner reached that 
age, and no reformation, then sure and certain Death !" 

*'How, by what means — who the Executioner — " 

"The King, Himself the Judge and Executioner. 
The persistent sinner who would continue in his evil 
ways would be fmally taken to the court — and oft 
fire from Heaven blotted him from the eyes of men. 
None allowed the prerogative of passing the Death 
sentence except The King." 

"I have noticed the entire absence of saloons — are 
there none?" 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 51 

"Nay, not one, thanks to The King Eternal- 
Saloons that fostered crimes and sent forth drunkards, 
and murderers, and thieves — men with unholy pas- 
sions — now not in existence — therefore no need of po- 
lice force. Judges, prisons, and the like — black shad- 
ows never cast on human hearts again." 

"Then are all kinds of Drink utterly forbidden — " 
"Yes; all vile concoctions of drink — but pure wine, 
pure cider, and score of other healthy natural bever- 
ages allowable — but drinking of wine not carried to 
excess — the use, and not abuse, the order of the day 
under the blessed guidance of The King and His 
Princes." 

"What of your very rich men — your millionaires?" 
"We have no specially rich men — in the Land of 
The King are some wealthy men — but none I think 
millionaires. In fact Greed, the mother of Million- 
aires — is a sin quickly punished by The King. A 
greedy man will not be admitted to the Court of The 
King under any circumstances — and if a man per- 
sistently remains away from the Court (for every 
male on Earth must go to the Court at stated inter- 
vals) then he passes sentence on himself, and will be 
brought to the court to receive judgment of The King. 
A Greedy and a covetous man, or woman, is abhorred 
by The King— and persistent wickedness will not be 
tolerated long in His Kingdom. You will therefore 
readily see that very rich men are very scarce — every 
man is assured of a living by The King — for the uni- 
versal proclamation and promise is "He shall satis- 



52 HOW THE KING BEIGNED IN ARIEL 

FY THE Desire of Every Living Thing." With this 
promise — care is banished — for none have a dread of 
the to-morrow wanting bread. We have no poor 
houses, no beggars, no poverty — some are poorer than 
others, but none are absolutely in want — and unless 
persistently an idle, lazy person — none may ever want 
a meal. Now as every person guaranteed a house to 
sleep in, clothes to wear, and bread to eat — why should 
there be a devilish race for wealth — and the heaping 
up of riches shows extortion and that not allowed in 
the realms of The King." 

"How then is a successful man of business living 
two hundred years to keep from accumulating an im- 
mense fortune — the very increase if a little will swell 
the amount as the years go by." 

"Not so, for if he is a man he will look on those 
around him as his brothers. The Kingly Law is the 
highest of all laws. "Do unto others as you would 
have them do unto you." At the first start, no large 
profit allowed. No princely salaries. The incomes 
clearly specified. And all things held in trust for The 
King. You must know speculation of any kind not 
allowed in the Kingdom. No buying cheap and sell- 
ing dear. And in fact as the earth always gives her 
increase, no dearths, no famines, no shortage, no over- 
plus, there is no room for speculation. A certain uni- 
formity of price, a certain margin of profit, no more, 
no less; no gathering up raw materials to make a 
scant market in certain localities. The Farmer knows 
what his wheat costs, his price fixed, no more, no less ; 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN AEiEL 53 

for the quantities that Earth shall produce yearly de- 
termined by The King. His princes appointed for 
that high purpose tell the Earth how much wheat, and 
corn, and meat, and wine, and fruit, necessary to pro- 
vide for the wants of the children of men — and that 
quantity given and no more. One can enter any store 
today and can look at the cost price of an article, and 
see by the tag how much must be paid for that 
article. The cost of the raw material, cost of manu- 
facturing, the profit that each person who handled the 
article had obtained, all plainly set forth. No quibble 
as to buying cheap — for no glut of any one thing al- 
lowed. Therefore speculation eliminated — actual cost 
and profits must be paid. A money panic therefore 
utterly impossible. Keen competition unknown. The 
cost of various articles varied — there is no dead level. 
Perfection is the point to be obtained. Some articles 
inexpensive — the workmanship entering largely into 
the cost price — delicate handiwork — a mechanic's 
genius and carefulness, made some articles, no more 
serviceable than the cheaper grades, expensive. Per- 
fection of handicraft had to be paid for. And an ed- 
ucated society freed from the horror of want, priva- 
tion and hunger always grows fastidious in its tastes 
— demands the highest grade and pays for it without 
a word. 

And as to factory and stores — in those you visited 
you saw no boys, no young men under age. Such is 
not permitted. The schools are compulsory, boys un- 
til they become of age must attend schools, colleges 



54 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN AEIEL 

and universities. Schools, colleges and universities 
absolutely free to all. No tuition fees, no privileges 
allowed to richer men's sons — all on the path of learn- 
ing on an absolute equality. Buildings built by the 
community; if the community too poor then built by 
the state. The teachers and professors paid from 
public funds. The system of education flawless, for it 
came from the loving brain of The King who loveth 
the children as the apple of His eye. 

Then all labor on farm, mine, railroad, factory, 
shop and store — only given by men who have grown 
to manhood's estate. And the labor problem not left 
to the ingenuity of men's limited brains and knowledge 
— but solved again by The Great King. Certain labor 
received certain remuneration no more, no less. The 
price of labor fixed so that the person who enters 
that position knows absolutely what he is to receive. 
The master knows what he has to pay. Individuality 
of tastes strictly adhered to — no iron rule to say what 
a man shall or must labor at. To a young man the 
world is before him — he need not tread in his father's 
shoes — but he starts out in life with this impressed on 
his mind — the dignity of all kinds and variations 
OF LABOR. The man who toils in the earth, building 
canals, bridges, railways — the meanest labor of such, 
just as honorable, and the money reward in the ab- 
stract no lower than the store clerk, the office clerk, 
or the higher official. Some more capable than others, 
the power and excess of brain still the absolute gift 
of The King. Humanity no dead level. There are 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN AEIEL 55 

Still exceeding bright men, bright men, fair average 
men, common placed men, and even dull men — from 
the higher mental capacity more demanded, from nat- 
ural gifts a higher level of work demanded — and no 
gifts allowed to be used for a selfish end or gain. Hu- 
manity in all its ambitions and cravings not curtailed 
— nay, The King stimulates such — and His approba- 
tion — 'tis ''Well done," — the prize sought for — and 
not the proud selfish gratified vanity and money ac- 
cumulations. Science only in its infancy — it lies avast 
undiscovered country — and The King does not put its 
secrets as a gift in the hands of any man, as if he 
were a child, without the patient labor. The King 
wants humanity to press out, upward, onward, to 
grasp as its own the secrets of Land, and Sea, and 
Sky. He does not open the storehouse of His secret 
workings and show men as if they were children the 
how, and the why, and the use of His mysteries. Nay, 
He loves intently to see men's brains, and fancy, and 
wills, and minds, and hands, at work to bring the hid- 
den Glorys, that He has purposely secreted, to view. 
He stands enjoying His men striving after the victory 
— He treats them as equals not as children in whose 
lap He carelessly flings ingenious puzzle toys. Indi- 
viduality stands out prominently — and with this as- 
surance — no man barred by adverse circumstances 
from the displaying of his natural gifts and deter- 
mined workmanship. The hours of toil not long. It 
does not require long weary hours of disagreeable 
toil to make a good living. Never more than eight 



56 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

hours public toil allowed. The other sixteen hours of 
the day absolutely in the toiler's own hands to follow 
the bent of his inclinations — be they what they may. 
And night work strictly forbidden except the absolute- 
ly necessary. No business Railroad trains, nor switch- 
ing, nor telegraphing. Pleasure trains may be run, but 
no compulsory labor — the work performed for love 
only — no payment." 

"But will not this stopping of Railway trains, night 
telegrams, and such, be a great hindrance to business? 
What if a rush order came !" Ricardo laughed softly : 

"Rush Orders — Why such? the world at present 
has none such. The first great virtue The King im- 
pressed on men's minds was — Patience! — and it was 
one of the hardest lessons for humanity to learn. 

Why a breakneck brain destroying haste — What the 
gain? More wealth? — having meat and clothes in 
plenty what need of such — let us learn contentment. 
Why night telegrams — saving? What need of saving? 
To rush and expedite matters of business? What 
need that business should be rushed — the gain! — ^but 
covetousness a curse — a state of mind The King ab- 
horred. No calamity befell, nor would befall, if a 
railway train stopped at a certain station, at a certain 
hour — who lost by it — its contents were not absolutely 
necessary to the well being of any living person. The 
rush, the speed, the roar, the impatient haste all sprang 
from the desire of gain — and if one piled up moun- 
tains of gain he was neither respected, honored, feared, 
nor reverence given him — but the most certain con- 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 57 

tempt of The King. Nay, eight hours and in this 
portion of pubHc labor idleness was not tolerated. 
''Diligent in Business !" a motto that The King wished 
for all to profit by. No idle^ no loafer, for if a man 
in health "did not labor neither should he eat !" "What- 
soever thine hand findeth to do, that do with all thy 
strength!" not that now the grave would soon end all 
— but it was the mandate of The King — to have labor 
honorable and all men engaged in it. No drone bees 
— no person allowed to sit in idleness and have others 
toil for him. No usury allowed. No money put out 
at interest. The money was in the hands of the state 
— money loaned for all legitimate objects, but no inter- 
est — but each borrower had to shape his ways to pay 
back dollar for dollar at a stated period. No money 
loaned to men who wanted to take selfish advantage of 
their neighbors. The borrower had to stand before 
The Resident Prince and state his wishes and plans. 
If for a sinister purpose The Prince had the gift of 
reading the borrower's mind. And no pledges taken, 
no mortgages given — a man's word enough. You will 
at once see that such a method detrimental to money 
lending, usury — or living on other men's gains. All 
are workers — I am, you will notice, a butterfly — but 
butterflies have some use. People love to hear me play 
— it is a gift and I do my best to use it for the Glory 
of The King. You will find here no theatres, nor 
playhouses as of old for tragedy and comedy. But we 
have some very large music halls where scarcely a 
night but some artists of song, or musical genius, de- 



58 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 

light their audience. Such players and singers receive 
a salary from the public treasury — they are not al- 
lowed to charge an admission fee — every house free 
seats, and no reserved — first come first seated — no dis- 
tinction betv^een rich and poor. Then we have very 
gifted Orators, and Speakers who delight the audienc- 
es with their powers. But all such gifted persons hold 
their precious endowments at the service of The King, 
to give pleasure to humanity without distinction of 
class or person — their gifts not used for their own 
selfishness, nor for greed of gain." 

"Are you not troubled with sickness and disease? 
In going through the City I saw no flaming boardbills 
of men who propose to cure all manner of disease — 
the specialists, many of whom are frauds — and yet I 
did not see a single sign swinging to the breeze nor 
painted on window of what may be termed the 
legitimate Physician, Doctor, nor Surgeon — How is 
this ?" Ricardo laughed pleasantly and answered : 

"The inhabitants shall not say I am sick" — do you 
remember the old promise? well, now fulfilled — to the 
letter in some parts of the earth, more especially in the 
Country where the City of The Great King stands. 
From sin and the efifect of sin spring all manner of 
diseases. Sin being curbed, controlled, and punished 
promptly — the human race is now very rarely troubled 
with disease unless men wilfully disobey the laws of 
The King. Sin bred crime — crime begat want — of 
proper clothing, of healthy food, of sanitary homes. 
Sin begat recklessness as to future consequences — 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 59 

hereditary a thing to be laughed at, ignored, and sin 
suppressed, sin banished — made healthy men, sound 
women. Idleness was soon regarded as a curse to be 
avoided. With work came the blessings of life — good 
bread, and meat, clothing suitable to the season — a 
home well ventilated, with the latest sanitary devices 
in vogue. With such blessings for little labor the blood 
became rich — the warm healthy blood drove disease 
from every lurking place. The services of Physicians 
and Doctors no longer required. If one is taken ill — 
The Resident Prince is immediately called — his touch, 
his blessing, his prayers cure immediately." 

"And your grave yards where are they — for men 
must die?" 

Again Ricardo laughed: 

"I never saw one ! We have no so called "God's 
acres" here — the new World is too young yet — we 
may have later — but in yon City I never heard the 
death bells toll yet — for man, woman or child. "The 
leaves of the Tree of Life in the midst of the Para- 
dise of God" never failed yet — and indeed both the 
leaves and fruit of The Trees which grow along the 
stream which watereth the City of The Great King — 
are free to all — no hand debars of fruit, and they who 
taste are cured of every ailment. Perchance some day 
we will go there together and I will lead you to the 
most beautiful earthly paradise man in the flesh, tied 
to earth, has ever seen." 

My heart thrilled at the thought — but curiosity was 
still rampant in my mind. 



60 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN AEIEL 

''And now as to the Woman question — I saw none 
in the factories, stores, offices where of old time they 
swarmed as locusts, eating up the means of livelihood 
from men — and proving a very curse to humanity — 
restricting marriage — making themselves bold; ram- 
pant, and in a vast majority of cases losing woman's 
innate modesty — bringing on themselves celibacy and 
all its attendant misery. How oft of old have I heard 
women praised for lifting up womanhood, to fight their 
own battles of life — make woman independent — wom- 
en equal to man — Women leaders that were a very 
curse to Womanhood, and unwittingly serving the 
Prince of Evil. My soul loathed such women Leaders 
for the liberty they preached — put Motherhood in the 
back ground — and blighted both men and women." 

Ricardo nodded his head while I was speaking, 
showing well he had no sympathy for such Woman 
Leaders — the Woman who would dare to make a new 
Bible. 

"The woman question was settled easily by The 
King. No woman permitted to work or toil in sweat- 
shops — for we have none such holes of misery; nei- 
ther are women allowed in mines, factories, stores, 
offices. Home is Woman's kingdom — every woman 
when she becomes of age can find a suitable husband — 
no man honest and willing to work need ever trouble 
himself as to the bread and butter question — and to use 
an old Irish expression : 'God never sent a mouth into 
the world that he did not make a potato grow to fill 
the mouth.' Men now have not to compete with the 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 61 

cheaper services of woman — that is entirely eliminat- 
ed from the social life. And no girl, nor woman, 
need go out of her father's house to earn her own 
pittance. Busy men — men properly paid settles the 
Woman question effectively." 

"On looking over yon City — viewing the houses 
and public buildings one thing I felt was absent, I 
found the landscape as if it were wanting in some 
familiar particular — and yet I could not say what was 
lacking — but now I have it! I have seen no Cathe- 
dral spires, no churches with towers and spires — why 
are they so particularly absent? What of the various 
sects that were ever envious of each other?" 

"All sectarianism has passed away. The Pope, the 
Patriarchate, the Cardinals, Primates, Arch Bishops, 
Bishops, Priests, Ministers and Pastors — obsolete 
terms of which the mass of people now alive have lit- 
tle conception, to their ears a jargon of afar off time. 
No stately temples now erected for so called prayers 
and worship. We have massive buildings — which we 
call "Praise Halls" where men worship — but they are 
of plain exterior, and plain interior. For remember 
that an almost perfect knowledge of The King now 
exists — and the complexion of religious worship en- 
tirely changed. At The King's Capital there is an ex- 
ceedingly large "House of Prayer for all nations," 
and a splendid ritual, not debasing like the mummery 
of the olden Greek, Roman and Episcopalian church- 
es — ^but scattered in every City, town, village, and 
hamlet, are simple structures where "prayer and praise 



62 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

are wont to be made." We have no ministers, monks, 
nuns and such — all such have passed away. Indeed the 
proclamation of 'The everlasting Gospel" somewhat 
changed. Christians nowadays have sight to aid their 
FAITH. Every human born on Earth can, if they will, 
go to The King's Court and see The Redeemer, see 
the prints of the thorns on His Brow, the nail prints 
in hands and sandled feet. Faith is not wanted to be- 
lieve in Him as a Person having all power, for the 
revelation of His power everywhere — the Risen Saints, 
the millions of Risen Saints testifying to His Resurrec- 
tion Power. He is a living Reality — His Power, Maj- 
esty, Glory unquestionable. Therefore the mind of 
men no longer taxed in believing on an unseen Divine 
Power — faith is no longer wanted to take the place 
of sight. The Redemption through His blood just as 
much of a fact and a reality as ever — and only through 
Him salvation possible — but faith no longer of sur- 
passing virtue — testimony to Him and for Him no 
longer bears the importance of early ages. To be oth- 
erwise than a nominal christian now an impossibility. 
Therefore the fight of faith over — we have seen there- 
fore we believe. Our remission of sins through His 
blood and Life just as important as ever — and only ob- 
tainable through simple faith in Him. And now in- 
struction in the Word of God commences at a very 
early age, no longer men say to another "Know The 
Lord" for they all know of Him from the least to the 
greatest." 

The service we now render The King almost en- 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 63 

tirely of praise. Our human wants are supplied, He 

HAS ''opened His HAND AND SATISFIED THE DESIRE OF 

EVERY LIVING THING" — therefore the old prayers grow 
obsolete — the old manner of sermons useless — and 
songs of praise in the largest measure fill the hours set 
apart for worship. Grace has been poured out on the 
children of men — Satan bound, Grace triumphant, and 
sin hedged in — nor dare it display itself openly to the 
sight as in former ages. But the human heart still has 
the virus of sin in it; and just now, and will for- 
ever, as long as the open sore remains, want Blood 
and Merits of The King to cleanse and purify. 

But I see nature is asserting itself — your eyes are 
growing heavy — see. Prince has already taken to slum- 
ber, nature is sleeping — then lie you down and take 
an hour or two of sleep. The boat needs no watch- 
ing — no accident now happens on sea, no storms to 
destroy property and lives — therefore, take your ease, 
knowing that you are cradled in the everlasting arms 
of The King who neither slumbers nor sleeps." 

And as I was bidden I layed down in the boat — and 
slept. 



CHAPTER VIII 

The Like of one — that we shall he, 
Where Risen Saints — all fair to see — 
Pure, Perfect through Eternity. 

NOTWITHSTANDING that my bed was only a 
plank I had a good rest. And now an incident 
came — was it indeed a real scene or only a 
dream? Was I awakened from my slumbers by the 
low hum of two voices — or was it all a fantasy? I had 
remained still when I awoke, had not moved from my 
position, but I distinctly saw in the forward part of 
the boat — two persons — two men — One Ricardo, who 
was listening to the Stranger. The new arrival whence 
came he ? had we met a boat or vessel while I slept — 
had my sleep been so sound that I did not hear the 
noise that would of a necessity have occurred had a 
ship been approached or a boat floated near? I could 
see we were on the open sea — no sign of land — and 
the early dawn was creeping over the shadows of the 
East. That the visitor was no stranger could readily 
be seen by the manner of Prince. The lion was half 
crouched — and the stranger's right hand was in the 
yellow locks of the animal. The stranger's left hand 
was trailing in the water that ran past the boat — evi- 
dently the stranger loved water. As the man was 
sitting down I could not tell exact height, but he had 



66 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

the limbs and body that proclaimed a pleasing figure. 
He was dressed in white, white hnen of exceeding fine 
texture. The sleeves loose, the garment evidently 
flowing down to his feet — one foot uncovered showed 
it had on a golden colored sandal. The garment gath- 
ered at the waist by a sash. The man's face very fair 
to look upon — a young man of not more than thirty- 
five summers. His hair rather long, of yellowish col- 
or, fell around his shoulders. His head uncovered ex- 
cept a coronet — and how the large gems flashed and 
glowed — the band of the coronet studded all over, 
strewn thick with pearls. And at the front one of the 
largest gems I had ever beheld. The gem fairly blazed 
as if the center a living life of light. He must have 
been quickly apprised of my awakening — for with one 
quick glance towards me, he arose, patted the lion's 
head, and said in a voice clear toned as the sound 
struck from crystal — 

"Well, fare thee well, Ricardo — I must go — I shall 
meet you at the court — when? 

''Very soon — I am almost impatient to hear of the 
new melodies which you say King David has arranged 
— good bye until then !" 

They clasped hands — then the stranger stood on the 
side of the boat — whether to go — no boat near — land 
the merest line upon the horizon — to swim — did mine 
eyes deceive me — it was all a dream then — I was now 
dreaming. The stranger stepped out — on air! In a 
minute he was ascending, the garments fluttered a lit- 
tle as he caught the upper current of air — he looked 



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back — waved his hand — and was it from him that 
the silvery, friendly laugh floated down — as bidding 
Ricardo a farewell? He vanished. Faded from my 
sight. Astonishment held me fast. Was I awake or 
asleep now? I heard Ricardo hum a little tune as he, 
opened a package — a package I had not seen in that 
boat before. Yes, and Prince was watching the un- 
folding of the Package as if to him it were most in- 
tensely interesting. I heard the gentle lapping of the 
waters against the side of the boat, I heard the cry 
of a sea bird — a curlew — The sun had just peeped 
up, the merest outline of its disk above the waters — 
which in still calm was reflecting the red flushed clouds 
above the head of The King of the morning. 

I arose — a merry voice fell on my ears : ''Good 
morning, — The Grace and Peace of The King be 
yours !" 

I looked, and, lo, spread upon a board — a most de- 
licious repast. Yes, fresh bread and no mistake — a 
flagon of white wine — bunches of grapes and quite a 
quantity of ripe fruit — fruit which made the lips water 
to behold. 

Had the stranger brought them — no doubt, who else ? 
Ricardo noted my puzzled looks — and laughing, point- 
ing to the tempting repast, said : 

"See, a present from The King's table — while you 
slept one of the Risen Saints was here — brought this 
for our needs — sit you down — see, how eager Prince 
is to commence !" 



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And the great beast sitting on his haunches had 
drawn near to be one of the company at this break- 
fast, furnished by Heaven without the shadow of a 
doubt. As we eat, Prince receiving his share of the 
bread and fruits which he enjoyed heartily — Ricardo 
said: 

''Yes, one of my most beloved friends was here 
while you slept. Spent several hours with me — for he 
is a most delightful talker. And then he is a musician 
of rare gifts — he had told me of some new melodies 
composed in the Upper Courts — that would soon be 
sang in the City of The Great King — and today I set 
out — will you come with me?" 

I clasped his hand — the look in mine eyes made him 
smile — and exclaim, with a pleasurable laugh, "Prince 
and I will be delighted — wont we, Prince?" And the 
great lion gave a roar — that sounded out — dying in 
echoes along the far off ripples — then he nodded his 
head with a majestic stately movement. 

During the night Ricardo had shifted the helm and 
now we were rapidly moving towards the land we had 
left the eve before. We were soon in the wide bay 
— all alive with the noise and voices from the great 
ships — some outward bound. As we neared the beach 
— we saw the fisherman who had given the boat sitting 
on the shingle. He greeted us with a wholesome wel- 
come — We ground on the sand and his hand held the 
prow as we jumped ashore. "And what payment?" 
cried Ricardo, his hand in a little wallet. "What, 
Prince, would you cast discredit on my gift — it was a 



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free loving offering," — ^said the sailor, with a tremble 
in his voice, half vexatious mortification that Ricardo 
should hint of payment. 

"But thou hast lost the morning's fishing, James — 
and surely it is but right to see thee paid for thy share." 

"Nay, Prince — I lose nothing — the other folk have 
promised me an equal part — for giving thee the pleas- 
ure of my boat!" 

Ricardo laughed happily — such service was very 
sweet to him. "Then I dare not pay thee!" 

"If the Prince would — " 

The fisherman stopped short — confused — the re- 
quest died on his lips — but Ricardo understood. In an 
instant out came the little reed — put to lips and a rare 
melody. As the sound swelled out — I could see men 
scattered here and there along the beach dropping the 
work in hand and stealing softly near — they all knew 
who was playing. 

Of a sudden three shrill whistles in rapid succession 
swelled along the water and pierced the ear. 

Ricardo started, looked towards the quay whence 
came the whistle — a steamer leaving the mooring place 
— brow turned towards the open sea — a large vessel 
outward bound — ^but Ricardo played on until the mel- 
ody finished. 

The fisherman was keen to see the eyes of Ricardo 
turned to the boat — now coming down the bay — he 
guessed why Ricardo had started. 

In a second he was in the boat putting up the mast, 
spreading the sail — exclaiming: — 



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"Quick, Prince, we shall catch her yet — a shame on 
me should you lose passage in the "Bonnie Bess" by 
amusing me with thy Heaven given gift!" 

Ricardo divined the sailor's wishes, with a merry 
goodbye to the listeners who had come anear, he pulled 
me into the boat — with a bound Prince was there — 
and in a few minutes the prow of boat turned to in- 
tercept the sea monster — for she was a very large ves- 
sel, standing high out of the water — a truly goodly 
sight to behold. And then a shout from the Land — 
caps and hats waving signalling to the great steamer — 
and an outside vessel's sailors caught up the cry — it 
seemed to leap from ship to ship — until an answering 
cry came from the stately outbound ship — the cry a 
single name : 

"Ricardo !" 

It was a magical name — no sooner had it reached 
the steamer and the sailors thereon knew of its import 
— than the vessel's speed slacked — and in a few min- 
utes stood almost motionless on the sun lit sea. A 
door in the vessel's side close to the water opened — 
and soon Ricardo, Prince, and myself, stood on the 
deck of the steamer — a happy Captain giving a royal 
welcome to Ricardo! 



CHAPTER IX 

Where ever I roam my heart is sea-homing — 
/ love it in calm, in crown crested white foaming, 
At sunrise, at noon, and its magic at gloaming. 

THE ''Bonnie Bess" had quite a number of pas- 
sengers on board — men, women and children — 
most of them on their way to The City of The 
Great King. One and all knew of Ricardo by sight or 
by reputation. It was handshaking all round — and 
every one on board more happy than ever by the 
knowledge of the presence of the famous Player. It 
was indeed a happy, merry company that wandered 
over the white decks of the ship — in fact the passen- 
gers were free to go wherever they desired. It was 
a holiday — the first day of many days of gladsomeness 
and joy for nearly all the passengers. Some would 
stop at Gibraltar, but most of them were for the City 
of The Great King. The older ones had been there 
before and therefore more staid in their expressions 
of expected pleasures, but with some, more especially 
of the maidens and youths, this being their first trip to 
see the Glory of all Nations, their conversation was 
full of what they most desired to see. And then the 
younger members had their favorites — King David 
who slew Goliath of Gath ; Jonah who had been in the 
great fish's belly, and Daniel of the Lion's den, seemed 



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to be the favorites with the Boys. The Girls gave a 
preference to Ruth, Queen of Sheba, and Esther the 
Queen. It was most deHghtful to hear the remarks, 
and see the earnestness of the discussion — as to the 
superior merits of the different favorites. As for me, 
the passage out to the open sea presented pictures of 
beauty I cannot forget. I had seen it at sunset before 
from a small boat — now I beheld the land, the sea, the 
sky, all bathed in sunshine — all with the glamour and 
the beautiful breath of the morning on them. I went 
from side to side of the vessel as an enraptured child — 
I stood on the bridge by the officer, I stood at the 
wheel of the Steersman — he standing there with none 
of the labor of the steersman in days of yore — a lever 
passed backward and forward now and then, which a 
little child could have done, held the great steamer 
steady to her course. The fading land was indeed a 
very fair sight to see — dwindling to more miniature 
proportions — prominent trees and buildings, and dales 
growing more indefinite, gradually losing outline in 
the hazy light — hills toppling down as it were — the 
rocky coves and inlets running closer together — the 
landscape growing thinner and thinner in its outline — 
until it lay at last a long thin line on the horizon — and 
then vanished — the sea below, the sky cover falling 
down — all that met the eye. And now with our head 
turned towards the East — the most mysterious East 
beckoning one and all with her magical, not to be re- 
sisted, finger to the Glory, Beauty and Magnificence of 
a place — the very thought of which made every bosom 



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thrill. Ricardo played for the children — the old folks 
just as pleased to hear — and Ricardo seemed never 
tired of pleasing them. Prince was indeed in a merry 
humor — the children made him forget his proud dig- 
nity — and he was more frolicsome than any cub that 
ever played on earth. 

The meals were wholesome, fruits abundant — the 
sleep most refreshing — for the idea of a storm never 
seemed to cross their minds for an instant. 

Days slipped past days — and we had not seen land 
for several days. We were making good speed — the 
trade winds (which now seemed to be everywhere) 
bellowed out our few sails continually. The Electric 
Machinery made no disturbing noises, the smoke so lit- 
tle of volume troubled none. We were constantly 
meeting vessels of all sizes — going North and South 
and East. Constant greetings between the Command- 
ers — and twice we slowed up to make exchange and 
barter with vessels coming up from the world which 
lay in the full south. Plenty of excitement — time did 
not hang heavy on the hands. Gay romping of Youths 
and Maidens, make believe picnics on prow, on waste, 
and deck of the ship. And the voice of song seldom 
silent. And oft in the brilliant moonlight — a merry 
dance, all tripping lightly to the gay festive melody 
of Ricardo. 

The sailors were a fine body of men — all dressed 
in bright colors, healthy in limb, and looks, gentle, 
kind to the passengers, never vexed or out of humor 
with the romps of the young ones. Keen, alert at eve- 



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ry beck and nod of their officers — perfect subordina- 
tion — no curses, black looks, nor hard sayings. Their 
labor no longer laborious, as "steady" weather the 
order of the day. No fear of a storm — a squall may 
come but not of a nature either to frighten nor v/orry. 
For storms on the Ocean of a disasterous character 
unknown — a hundred years had not seen a storm of 
such wild character as either to endanger ship or 
drown a sailor. The terror of the tempest had fled 
from the Ocean — The King's voice saying ''Peace be 
still!" uttered on His return to Earth, was still re- 
membered by the waves of the sea — and now they 
neither rolled, tossed, battled, lashed, nor roared to do 
a wrong to man, nor his works. To be sure there 
must be care and attention to wind and wave — a reck- 
less carelessness courted disaster now as ever. Ships 
had gone on the rocks for want of care and knowledge, 
ships had been allowed to come too close, had crossed 
each other's paths — collisions followed, and ships had 
foundered — but no lives lost. Nature still had many 
moods unchangeable that man must observe, be warned 
of, or suffer the consequence. A blind faith in The 
King may do well for fools and children — but man 
had now, as ever, to be an active agent to make, guard 
and keep his own safety. Man a responsible agent — 
who had nature and natural forces to battle with now 
— as of yore — with this difference — that men were 
mentally, physically and morally better to cope with 
nature than before. For now nature was not repul- 
sive — it answered to man's authority in a thousand 



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ways as never before. There was plenty of work to 
keep the sailors busy — but plenty of men to perform 
the work — with the usual leisure for all at stated in- 
tervals. No going to sea nowadays "short of hands" 
with ragged, dirty, drunken sailors — brow-beaten, 
cuffed, kicked, cursed and beaten by brutal officers. 
No "weavels" in the biscuits, no hard tack, no grog, 
no sour, rotten meat; no quarter smelling foul with 
dirt, and filth, and rags abominable — no huddling to- 
gether like cattle — all such past away. Rich whole- 
some meat and drink, clean, separate, airy rooms — 
Gentlemenly sailors v/ith Gentlemen for Officers. 

One morning I was awakened by a sudden shout — a 
sudden cry — and then a babble of cries — men and 
women's voices inquiring of the sudden outcry — Had 
some mishap come? A trumpet was sounding loud 
and clear for all on Deck. I hurriedly dressed. Ran 
up the stairway to the lower deck — Saw the side of the 
vessel crowded with men, women, boys and girls — all 
pointing at something — all talking — were any listen- 
ing? — but never a sign of terror on any face. The 
bridge was crowded with women gesticulating, laugh- 
ing, talking, full of pleasurable excitement. And there 
stood Prince, head over the bulwark, lashing his tail — 
his loud roar adding to the noise as it rang out over 
the waste of water. Hundreds of voices at once cried 
out! 

"Look! Look! Look! Look there, what a monster! 
Oh ! is not that splendid ? — Wonderful ! most Wonder- 
ful ! Can't we get closer, Captain !" 



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And when I stood at the vessel's side — a grand pan- 
orama surely spread before me. The morning sun had 
just bounded above the rim of waters on the horizon — 
the sea sparkled and flashed as a great mirror — and I 
saw as it were a thousand rainbows — leaping up here, 
dying down there, a scene of bewildering shifting of 
motion and color. A mile or more away on the bosom 
of the waters — hundreds of monsters were gamboling, 
great monsters leaping clear out of the water, lashing 
the otherwise still waves unto white cascades of surf 
— spouting vast volumes of water hundreds of feet 
in the air — making rainbows of most beautiful colors. 
And we felt the motion of the great ship change from 
her course, and towards the gamboling monsters 
straight we sailed — near and nearer — we could hear 
the loud splashings as upwards they leaped and down- 
ward fell — how they splashed the water in every di- 
rection — how the mighty tails lashed to mountains of 
foam the water, and made the sea a multitude of mael- 
stroms. Nearer, and some of the monsters had seen 
us — and with a snorting, like race horses, on they 
came — speeding with terrific force — a rivalry as to 
who would meet us first. My heart stood still, I 
stepped down to the deck — Was the Captain mad! 
What sort of crazy people were the officers? What if 
a score of such monsters struck us with full rushings 
— but I saw the Captain standing on the bridge — he 
was pointing out some particular one to the youngest 
boy in the ship — I heard his laugh — he was not afraid 
— the fool thus to court death! I shut my eyes, and 



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shivered, listened for that shock — surely the shock of 
a brief battle — then the rush of water through the 
crashed side of the boat — but I shut my eyes and 
shivered in vain — the monsters were all around us, 
yes, I could feel the ship shiver for some monsters 
under the very keel. Again I stood by the vessel's 
side — looked down on the great fish that now thickened 
around us until it seemed like a jam of lumber logs in 
a river. Their small eyes peered up at us, they opened 
their wide jaws and we could glance down the red 
passage way — they swayed their tails to and fro, 
worked their large fins — as if they were giving an ex- 
hibition — revealing all their ugliness, their beauty ; even 
some turned upside down, gave a hundred twists and 
turns — and all seemingly had an intelligent notion that 
they were there to let the gazers see every detail that 
curiosity could demand. And one — it was a baby one — 
seemed determined to make mischief — a frolic — for it 
spouted a volume of water right over our heads — 
and such a scramble, a rush from the down coming 
scattered water — but only merry shouts as people in- 
dulge in — who have suddenly come on a mishap — that 
may give unpleasantness for a minute — but made the 
laugh louder for the unexpected discomfort. The wet- 
ting made no wrath — the heads were again soon lean- 
ing over the side of the vessel; and some who had 
flowers fell to throwing them on the impertinent baby 
— who rocked to and fro as if laughter were convuls- 
ing his insides. 



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Did we spend an hour or two in such company — 
time passes quickly when curiosity excited — and it 
suddenly came to me — how prodigal of time this Cap- 
tain was — no Captain of olden vessels would have 
gone out of their way to satisfy the curiosity of their 
passengers — but then flashed the thought why not — 
What if the vessel's machinery lay silent and we halt- 
ed, sauntered through the midst of such a company? 
Would any person suffer by this loafing with the ocean 
loafers who were idle ever in the waves? Greed was 
dead ! The two hours wasted lost not a dollar for the 
owners — and not a passenger in such haste to mind 
gazing on this ocean frolic. 

And suddenly I saw amid the monsters a new form 
— nay several — and I had seen enough of them in 
picture books of old to know that they were sharks — 
would we have a battle — would the waters be blood 
red with the life streams of the monsters' hearts? The 
sharks were here and there — but swam as brothers all 
— no deadly combat — The Prince of Peace had 
changed their natures — the curse of sin removed — and 
enemies floated around each other, above, below each 
other, but never a snarl, nor a flash of cruel teeth — 
nor a deadly attack — Harmony among the creatures of 
the deep — as well as on land. At last the Captain giv- 
ing the word — the pulse of the engines shivered 
through the vessel — she moved back to her course — 
and the monsters parted either way — left her a free 
passage — and followed us for miles, gamboling, spout- 



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ing and dashing the waves a creamy white, fiUing the 
sky with gorgeous colored rainbows. 

Then we heard a snort that seemed to shake the air 
about us — a big Bull — evidently the leader had spoken 
— and in a minute not a creature seen — all had sank 
down out of sight — and soon after we saw their spout- 
ings again — but miles on miles away. 

And this was the manner in which I heard the sto- 
ry of Ricardo. 

He loved to climb aloft to the crow's nest — tho' 
not often used, the vessel had a roomy one — the two 
of us alone — the moon saihng full above us, the wind 
faint and soft, the vessel gliding almost noiseless 
over a calm sea of sparkling silvery hue. We sat 
there alone for sometime without a word. Then he 
played a soft low melody that was not heard more 
than twenty feet away — a melody surely never framed 
by man who had not been translated — and had vis- 
ited the upper Paradise of God. It was a harmony 
indescribable — the whisper of an angel — the language 
of a rose to another rose — the soft music made as if a 
lily shook itself when it saw the sun. 

"Ricardo, tell me how this gift came — for no man 
ever had such a gift from nature — your lips must have 
been touched by the Blessed One ?" 

He laughed the lowest, softest kind of a happy 
laugh. 

"It came in this wise, O my friend." 

"I was born by the sea — on a rock promontory — 
aye, almost an island — the house stood on the rocks 



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whose base was ever white with the spray and foam 
of the restless waters. I must have heard the voice of 
the sea before my mother's voice sounded in mine ear. 
Is it then a wonder that I loved the sea — ah, it was a 
foster mother — aye, a very blessed mother to my soul ! 
My father one of the fisher folk — he loved the sea — 
and it became to me a teacher of song, of melody, of 
harmony. It whispered the strangest stories to my 
boy's mind — oh, it told me the most absorbing stories, 
and it rhymed to my ears the quaintest kind of songs. 
It was ever with me — no matter how far inward — 
landward — I went, I could ever hear the sea calling 
me — calling me back to her bosom, and her melodies. 
I went to school and learned all I could of the sea — 
constantly studying these books which disclosed such 
knowledge to me of its force, its depths, its caverns, 
its stress, its weeds, its flowers, its fishes, its shells, its 
wonderful minute inhabitants, that I became the fore- 
most scholar in that school in anything that related 
to the sea. If a question arose among the young 
scholars, in the village, on which some knowledge was 
wanted of the sea and its wonders — the dispute was 
left to me to decide, for my knowledge to them 
seemed boundless and beyond dispute. And song, and 
story ever my delight — until my parents were puzzled 
as to what I would naturally turn to for a living. Not 
as a fisherman for I loved the fishes too well to catch 
and barter them — live on bread purchased by the death 
of my fish — never! For trade I had no love, no knack, 
as a mechanic I was ever a failure — I could not seem 



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to learn how to handle a tool. I liked to see the fruit, 
the flowers, the grain, but somehow my soul loathed 
the pruning knife and plow. And yet I was no drone 
at school — books were companions I loved. But I felt 
no inclination to write. I could tell a story but to 
write one, never. I loved to put down my ears to the 
sea and listen to its ever changing tunes, in winter and 
summer weather how its songs change — changed with 
every shifting of the faintest breeze — but evermore a 
melody. And the bird's song — ah, I could whistle and 
mock every bird — and bring them to my hand. I 
heard the music of the leaves, the love stories told by 
the flowers — aye, everything in nature had a voice ar- 
ticulate for me — and one and all would whisper to my 
soul. Moody, yes, loving solitude, almost careless of 
maiden's beauty — their eyes won me not, their voices 
cried not music to me — alone with the moor all around 
me — man not in sight — down by the rocks, in the cool 
dim cavern — by the white beach in the little coves — 
ah, what an idler I was. Restless with folks around — 
but loving nature wild and stern, or nature clad in gar- 
ments of tree and grass, and flower. I was not twen- 
ty one — but would be soon — and soon I would have 
to make the choice of a trade, a profession — and oft 
times I was troubled in mind and soul — I felt myself 
a very worthless person. 

One day I was on a wide stretch of sandy beach. 
The bay was quite a wide one. The tide was out. I 
was going here and there in bare feet, wading through 
water left in sunken places. Watching the sea crea- 



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tures of shell and fish. Gathering up long tresses of 
sea weed — gazing on its colors, watching its form — 
ever looking for some beauty in it I had never seen 
before — for he who tenderly, earnestly watches na- 
ture for its wonders will surely ever find new and 
fresh ones. I was leaning over a small pool, watch- 
ing some tiny crabs crawling around — softly whis- 
tling a tune I had heard a strange bird sing that morn- 
ing. Suddenly I saw a shadow fall across the water 
— I started, but a few minutes before I had scanned 
the beach and not a human in sight — no rocks near 
that could have hidden this person. How came he 
here so swiftly? Startled I looked up. One clothed 
in white was standing near. The one garment had a 
hood of same material — it covered the head and part- 
ly concealed the features — the garment falling down 
touched the sand completely hiding the feet. I knew 
it was the figure of a full grown man of fair propor- 
tion. The face as far as seen was that of a young 
man — and the eyes — oh, those eyes — they seemed to 
read my soul through and through — such sweet soft 
eyes — such a winsome smile — and yet I trembled as 
a leaf in the presence, that surely could do me no 
wrong. I stood face to face — but never word either 
spoke — but gazing each at the other. In arising the 
small reed that I had that morning cut by the river, 
on which after cutting holes I could make a melody 
— fell from my girdle where I had placed it. It fell 
at his feet. His eyes glanced down at it — his hand 
went down and took it up — he smiled at me — then 



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touched it to his Hps — oh, the melody! — How was it 
— I never knew, but I was kneeUng at His feet, look- 
ing up into His face, grasping His garment convul- 
sively and crying — yes, crying with a joy that filled 
and thrilled every fiber of body, soul and spirit. How 
long did he play — what did he play? idle to question 
then or now — ah, that was melody! He stopped — 
and before I knew what I said — I cried out: 

"A gift, O King, A gift, O King!" 

And then out to me was stretched the hand, the 
long white fingers. And one of the fingers touched 
my lips and through my being ran a sudden shock — 
I trembled in every nerve — faint I grew and would 
have fallen had not his hand rested on my head — 
my face was turned down — when I had grasped His 
garment I had uncovered His feet — sandled feet and 
the healed flesh over nail holes caught my vision — I 
looked up — the hood had fallen back — I saw ried 
marks on the brow — healed, but the scars made by 
the thorns there — I saw the hands — the nail prints 
plainly seen on the palms — and His voice — that rare 
grand tone was ringing in my ears — heard by my soul : 

"What is thy request?" 

"Let me play as my Lord hath played !" I cried out, 
bending down before Him, clasping His feet. 

"Be it as thou desireth, Ricardo!" 

I sobbed aloud — I kissed the feet — but in a second 
I was alone — The King had vanished." 



CHAPTER X 

Why should we queston anything 
Mysterious now? our hope should sing — 
''All doubts removed when comes The King." 

RICARDO said : 
"Now know that where we shall tread in two 
days will be the most holy places of Earth — 
the very gateway of Heaven, the spot where Jacob's 
ladder indeed joins Heaven and Earth. 

Know too that the Holy Oblation stands higher than 
all the other portions of the country. The Holy obla- 
tion is a square — fifty seven miles long, fifty seven 
miles broad. The Holy Place divided into three parts 
— the first division we shall enter called The Posses- 
sion of The City is Eleven miles North to South, and 
fifty seven miles East and West, in the center stands 
The City of Jerusalem. Immediately North of that, 
twenty two miles wide, fifty seven miles long The Por- 
tion of The Levites. Here the children of the tribe 
of Levi have their habitations amid a most magnificent 
stretch of fruitful land. But for the most part the 
grounds are Parks and pleasure places — for the Le- 
vites who attend constantly in different orders, and 
sections, and shifts, both night and day are minister- 
ing at the Sanctuary. They do all the menial work of 
The House, keep it clean, provide food for the vis- 



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itors, meet the strangers at the doorways — direct them 
where to go, instruct them as to the rules of the house, 
are at the constant bidding of the guests. The South 
twenty chambers of the Sanctuary set apart for their 
private use, none allowed there unless given special per- 
mission. As the Levites are in constant attendance on 
Ministry of Sanctuary they are not allowed to trade 
in a mercantile manner, neither have they time to 
cultivate their special possessions, for tho' they are of 
vast numbers — as well they may be, to keep clean, and 
in order buildings covering a space of four miles 
square. They are entirely supported by Tithes and free 
will offerings; and you may suppose The King sees 
they lack for nothing. Now the Sanctuary stands right 
at the Northern border of The Possession of The Le- 
vites occupying about the space whereof old Jerusalem 
covered. Stretching northward from the limits of The 
Sanctuary lies The Holy Portion for the Sons of 
Zadok. Their possessions twenty two miles wide, fifty 
seven miles long — but no mortal footstep enter in that 
Palace Place — It is the Earthly home of the Risen 
Saints. No foot may dare cross the boundary — cer- 
tain death follows. The law is imperative, and the 
penalty quickly follows. Ignorance does not save. The 
boundary line guarded by forces of Nature that can 
show no pity — for they are natural, and have no choice 
but to act when transgressor's feet dare to set them 
in motion — the transgressor his own executioner. Nei- 
ther human, angelic, or Risen Saints have part, or 
hand, or wish, or. will, in this matter. We are told of 



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its beauties but the human eye only sees but faint out- 
Hnes — of palaces, gardens, fountains and other de- 
lights, but as the Possession higher than any surround- 
ing mountains — its valleys, dells and pleasant places 
hidden from curious eyes. With precipitous cliffs, un- 
scalable on three sides, for sheer cliff without a foot- 
hold, or ledge anywhere bars footsteps of the most 
daring. At the side bordering The Levites the boun- 
dary line set thick with trees, as it were a forest hi- 
ding from prying eyes the beauties within. For you 
must know that The Risen Saints are always repre- 
sented by some of their numbers day and night at 
the Sanctuary. Relays, after relays, at stated hours, 
new Saints come, and others go back, either to the 
Earthly home, or to The Heavenly City now stretched 
rig'ht above, which giveth the light to us now at night 
as clear as days of long gone by." 

''Sacrifices !" I exclaimed, "Surely you are mista- 
ken! The Sacrifices of Praise you must mean — not 
the blood and flesh of animals ?" 

He was astonished at my astonishment! 

''Why not? It is The King's command!" 

"But such thought is utterly repugnant to the mind 
— have we not done with the beggarly elements — " 

Ricardo quickly put his fingers to my lips — he was 
shocked — I could see it on every feature — 

"Nay, Nay, friend, speak not so, never say The 
King's command is repugnant — That is high treason! 
He commands — we obey." "Who dare question His 



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knowledge — who dare to say — It is not becoming of 
Him so to order!" 

''But all the Great Teachers of Christianity of the 
long ages always spiritualized the chapters of Ezekiel 
which contained hints of such renewal of sacrifices — 
or said such were fulfilled at the restoration under 
Ezra—" 

"Well friend it is waste of time to talk of this, know 
you that these same leaders, now Risen Saints, are 
some of the very persons who offer the sacrifices on 
the Lion of God, and sprinkle the blood en the horns. 
I have spoken to them, and, aye, the sorrowful look 
that sometimes darkens for an instant their faces — 
when they confess how blind the instruction they gave 
the people in their earthly careers — spiritualizing the 
plainest statement of scripture — thinking they were 
giving a truthful exposition of God's Word by ignor- 
ing the claims of the flesh, of the human in the Re- 
demption made by the King." 

*'Now let us dismiss this exploded wisdom of the 
Fathers, teachers and Preachers. But never again be 
hasty in coupling the word ''repugnant" with any com- 
mand of The King. Nay, hang not down thy head 
my friend, The King has heard, but He knows well 
your words sprang from false reasoning and false 
teachings — He readily forgiveth every transgression 
and wants no man sorrowful in His Dominions — for 
He forgiveth freely, and Pardoneth all our sins and 
shortcomings." 



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The Levites — the sons of Aaron are now thrust out 
of the High Priest Hood, and higher Priestly offices. 
They receive the sacrifices at the door of the Sanctu- 
ary, from the hand of the officer, they slay, flay and 
prepare such parts consecrated for the altar. They de- 
liver the portion thus to be offered at the edge of the 
inner sanctuary to the hands of The Risen Saints who 
alone can ofifer on the altar, which crowns the top of 
Mount Zion." 

I tell you this so that tomorrow you may have a 
knowledge of the Places — for no doubt by noon our 
feet shall stand within thy walls, O Jerusalem ; and by 
this time tomorrow we shall tread the sapphire floors 
of The Sanctuary— The House of Prayer for all Peo- 
ple — and behold its surpassing Glory! 

You remember that the promise, or land grant, giv- 
en to Abraham included a large tract of land from 
the Nile in Egypt to the Great River, the River Eu- 
phrates such started across the Arabian Desert, run- 
ning from East to West — and now I knew that Isaiah's 
prophecy indeed fulfilled : "The Wilderness and the 
Solitary places shall be glad for them; and The Des- 
ert shall rejoice and blossom as a rose. It shall blos- 
som abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and sing- 
ing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it the 
Excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the 
Glory of Jehovah and the Excellency of our God." 

"In the wilderness shall waters break out and 
streams in the desert, and the parched ground shall 
become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water; 



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in the habitation of Jackals, where each lay, shall be 
grass with reeds and rushes, and a highway shall be 
there, and a way, and it shall be called The Way of 
Holiness No lion shall be there, nor any raven- 
ous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found 
there ; but the redeemed shall walk there ; and the Ran- 
somed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with 
songs and everlasting joy upon their heads ; they shall 
obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall 
flee away." 



CHAPTER XI 

THE WHITE LIGHT FROM THE KING'S PALACE 

We shall see it from afar 
Brighter than sun, moon or star — , 
House, where Christ and His Saints are. 

EVERY passing night clearer and more brilliant 
the white light flashed from the Palace of The 
Risen Saints — we were soon nearing the sea 
where we would sail on directly under the Jasper City. 
And nearing our journey's end, up from the hori- 
zon in all directions loomed stately ships — aye, ships 
and vessels of all sizes — and evidently from shape and 
rigging from all quarters of the world. When we en- 
tered the straits of Gilbraltar we were in a regular fleet 
of vessels, and much care and attention had to be 
given for fear of running down a smaller craft than 
our own — or being run into by a ship as large or even 
larger than our own. Ah, it was a merry fleet that 
sailed that summer sea. Each ship gay with bunting 
and flags — in fact a friendly rivalry as to which ship 
the most daintily dressed. And then a friendly rivalry 
as to which of the sea vessels could race a given space 
the fastest — and which vessel handled by Captain and 
crew in the most dexterous manner. More often a 



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friendly rivalry between smaller vessels — but all in 
good natured manner — and the prize a bunch of flow- 
ers, or such offering that debarred the thought of 
gambling and of Gain. And soon the excitement ran 
high — in a few hours we would behold the vast quays 
which stretched for miles along the coast — which 
made the landing place for the entire Western World 
to the port of entry of the City of The Great King. 

Ricardo had already informed me that the olden 
coast line of Palestine had been entirely changed. A 
geological change indeed — the mighty Earthquake had 
driven back the sea for many, many miles, lifting 
from the sea a mighty track of land reaching from 
about the former mouth of the Nile clear to Asia Mi- 
nor. The land of Palestine was entirely changed in 
many particulars. Where in prehistoric ages Earth- 
quakes had made a great fault, depressing the coast 
Hne of Palestine, Africa to the South, and Asia Minor 
to the North — Now another Earthquake had lifted 
the same submerged land to its former position. 

Therefore the Port of Entry of Palestine was sev- 
eral miles from the Capital Jerusalem. In fact a 
vast City had sprung up along the shore line, and 
here was brought the merchandise of the world for 
barter and trade. The Great Merchant houses of the 
Globe had headquarters at the Port of Entry. Here 
the Occident and Orient — the North and the South 
met, greeted each other, and exchanged their merchan- 
dises — their products, their manufactured Goods. This 
Port of Entry absolutely controlled by the Israelitish 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 93 

Merchant Princes. But they were no longer avaricious, 
coveting and grasping — their nature being changed. 
Grace, Equity and Truth ruled every branch of selling 
and buying. At this Port of Entry was transacted 
all the foreign business between the nations of the 
world. The Price an article would bring at the Port 
of Entry was the price on which all the prices of the 
World for that article was based. No fluctuations of 
market — for a hundred years the price would not vary 
— the supply and demand equal — no glut in the mar- 
ket — The Risen Saints had under their control the 
given amount the Earth would bring forth of each 
staple — so speculation was not dreamed of — certainty 
the order of trade — no buying cheap or selling dear. 
No person bought a single article here for sale to find 
a glut, nor a scarcity. A fair margin of profit for 
producer of the raw material, a fair margin of profit 
for the manufacturer — a fair margin of profit for the 
merchantman — an unvarying scale which banished 
speculation, avarice and greed. The Port of Entry 
had vast and mighty warehouses filled to overflowing 
with the products of The World. But for that mat- 
ter the immense quays crowed with merchandise un- 
protected, unwatched, either by day or night. Patrol 
and Police protection unknown. None afraid to leave 
the most precious merchandise opened and exposed to 
passer's sight and touch. A thief would soon be 
caught. Dishonesty indeed a most foolish action for 
detection followed quickly — and the wrong doer al- 
ways found, no matter what the subterfuge used to 
cover the offense. 



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No trafficing of any kind was allowed in the City 
of The Great King. It was entirely a Residential 
City. Stores and warehouses to be sure for distribut- 
ing food and clothes to the dwellers — but no great 
mercantile transaction — and manufacture of all kinds 
utterly forbidden. The Hotels for accommodation of 
travelers were very numerous — Houses of ease, com- 
fort, modern in every particular; so that the millions 
who came up at the Feast of Tabernacles, representa- 
tives from every country under Heaven, here found 
ample accommodation, no crowding, no inconvenience 
from lack of bread and sleeping place. And no ex- 
orbitant prices — they that could pay paid — and they 
too poor to pay never wanted for any earthly comfort 
as long as they abode in The City of The Great King. 
No loafers lingered there, no drones, no idlers — the 
very atmosphere changed such people to self respect- 
ing, want-to- work people. The spirit of labor and hon- 
or contagious. 

The sun was soon to sink below the horizon — so 
that we knew we could not see the Port of Entry by 
day. But now being directly under the Palace of the 
Saints, tho' leagues, on leagues high above us, still the 
light all round us clear and strangely beautiful — for 
this light cast no shadow. Shadows seem eaten up in 
this new world. It looked as if eternal high noon, 
the light made no shadow — clear at one place as an- 
other it was a shadov/less night. And suddenly to 
our eyes loomed up to the East as if it were four 
mighty beacon lights — away northeast of The Port 
of Entry. A mighty cry of joy ran from ship to ship 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 95 

in our immediate neighbourhood — every one on board 
our vessel crowding the side, crowding the bulwark — 
all eyes fixed on the far away Glory. Every one knew 
what they were — but evermore that Glory appeared 
fresh and fair to the eye, no matter how often seen. 
Four towers springing up — their color that of a ruby 
—and between the space of the towers, above them 
lay A CLOUD OF LIGHT — oue could call it naught else — 

A GREAT CLOUD DENSE WITH LIGHT. 

So at last mine eyes had seen the Glory Cloud rest- 
ing over the Tabernacle — The House of Prayer for all 
nations. And soon, to our eyes, we saw the immense 
structure of the Sanctuary taking shape. Lo, the side 
turned towards our eyes had foundation the color of 
sapphires — above them, walls of wondrous colored 
stones — and here and there along the walls, at stated 
intervals, were blazing carbuncle stones — we knew 
them to be the gateways— and then at the four corners 
sprang up the immense, lofty, yet slender towers — 
built of rubies— the whole building glistening, built of 
precious stones — that glowed — flashed — the most beau- 
tiful building ever seen by eyes, who had not seen the 
upper Beautiful Mansion of The King and His 
Retinue of Risen Saints. 

I could not utter a word — I was dumb at the sight 
of such a building— was this only a dream— mirage 
soon to evanish? but no, Ricardo had told me of this 
before but his eloquent words had brought no concep- 
tion of the majestic splendor of this Sanctuary, com- 
posed of Precious Stones. Suddenly the cry : 



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*'Let go the Anchor !" shocked me back to where I 
stood. I looked around and saw a strange sight — 
ships, ships, ships, until the near world seemed to be 
made of ships. While I was wrapped up in my vision 
of The Glory, the vessel had drawn nearer and nearer 
to the Port of Entry. In fact through the rigging of 
the ship I could see the outlines of the vast structures, 
back of the quays, in which were piled the rich raw ma- 
terials and manufactured articles representing the 
products of the entire Globe. 

We could not land that night. Traffic for the day 
suspended on the Docks — which were entirely desert- 
ed of human kind. The Landing would be bright and 
early in the morning. Then arose a hymn of praise, 
led by the sweet melody of Ricardo, to the Glory of 
The Great King. Now those who wished could slum- 
ber. Few went to their berths, almost the entire com- 
pany laid down on the deck, or wherever they were. 
As for me I sat on the vessel's prow for hours — watch- 
ing — drinking in the beauty of the Sanctuary. 

At last Ricardo tipped my arm — "Come friend — 
you must rest — for tomorrow will be The Red Day of 
your Life. You shall see The City of God — per- 
chance, see the Face of The King!" 

I could say nothing — I only pressed his hand — and 
side by side we lay down — and soon sleep came — and 
after a dreamless sleep, as peaceful as a child's — I 
opened mine eyes, sprang to my feet — and saw before 
mine eyes — away in the distance the faint outline of 
the Palaces that stood in The City of The Great King. 



CHAPTER XII 

Then everything he passing fair — 
All men he truthful and sincere, 
Lo, no deception anywhere 
Because The Risen Christ is here. 

I HAD been awakened from slumber by the gentle 
motion of the ship — we were now nearing the 
docks and quays. The Quays where passengers 
landed to the North of the immensely larger docks 
and quays where merchandise unloaded. As we neared 
the quay one could not help noticing the great length 
and thickness of the granite blocks with which the 
quays were built. Huge blocks, but the sides, and top, 
and bottom, hewed with such a nicety that on the 
closest inspection one could only see the joinings of 
the stones as thin as a wafer. Such building must 
have been costly indeed — as every stone seemed to 
have been turned out by a master hand. The quays 
looked indeed what they were — massive, able to resist 
the beat of storm and wave — immovable they arose 
from their rocky foundations which were sunk deep in 
the sea — to such a depth that the largest vessel afloat 
could lay along the piers and find plenty of water to 
float — no fear of grounding on rocks. The vessel was 
soon at the pier, the passengers all ready to unload — 
and that was done in a quiet orderly manner, but in an 



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increditable short time. Ricardo went up on the bridge 
where the captain stood to bid him farewell, and 
thanks for the passage. 

In a few minutes his arm .through mine, Prince 
following, we passed down the gangway and stood on 
the quay. Already others had gone before and had 
been met by half a dozen men, in long flowing gar- 
ments, rich in color and material, with white turbans — 
and one glance at their faces showed them to be Is- 
raelites. For the moment it struck me — were they 
custom house officials? I mentioned of the thought 
to Ricardo — and he laughed most pleasant : 

"Aye, that is good. Friend mine, I shall tell them 
of it! But know there are no custom houses here, 
and no officials to examine cargoes, and passenger's 
luggage. The only Public officials at the Port of Entry, 
Harbor Masters, who consign to vessels coming in 
where they shall land, and at what dock they shall un- 
load. But yon men who greet the Passengers are men 
who instruct strangers where to go, what hotels they 
are consigned to, give them information of every kind 
— and all without money and without price. No one 
is lost, none need go astray, all are safe when they 
reach The Land, most peculiarly, The Land of The 
King. 

"As to us," Ricardo said, "we knowing our way 
from former occasions have no need of their good 
services ; at the same time we must not offend them by 
any seeming indifference to their good offices !" 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 99 

"Ricardo ! Ricardo, Peace to thee — and Blessings 
of The King rest on Tiiee!" 

The words came from the official who seemed to be 
highest in command — his face beaming with pleasure, 
he had come forward to greet Ricardo with open hand. 
The other officials excusing themselves for the mo- 
ment to those with whom they were engaged, came 
forward with welcome on their lips — this singer, Ri- 
cardo, was known evidently the world over. 

We soon stepped out — ignoring the conveniences — 
for Ricardo wanted to point out the different things 
he knew would interest me, which could not be done so 
effectually if whirled along by Electric cars. The 
morning, ah, such a morning — the air was a pleasure 
to breathe — it was a glory never felt before just to 
live! And Life everywhere! joyous, happy, calm — the 
human rejoiced — and beasts were not forgotten. The 
exhilarating breath of the sea — met the fragrant breath 
of the flowers — mingling together, it was stimulating 
to every nerve — to every ffber of the body — the red 
blood throbbing in the veins — made motion a delight, 
a luxury. 

Surely the warehouses were costly structures of large 
blocks of granite, buildings that would last for a thou- 
sand years. Tramways along the wide streets — cranes, 
hoisting machinery of all kinds — so that the touch 
of a button <:arried to the various stories of the build- 
ings the countless kinds of merchandise ; and above the 
white walled buildings, above the red tiled roofs, the 
stately palm trees reached out their fronded heads — ■ 



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and seemed to whisper a blessing on the toil below. 
The utter absence of smoke made the atmosphere very 
clear, the eyes unaided could see an immense distance. 
And then no wall smoked, dilapidated buildings, none 
falling into decay and ruin. Large openings and wide 
windows to let in the light and sweet air. No damp 
cellars — but lofty airy rooms, smelling of the rare 
merchandises — an air made sweet and pure by the 
breath of the Oceans. A spicy smell, aromatic, from 
some of the warehouses. And men — bright faced, 
brightly dressed in cool white garments, all seemingly 
young men or in the prime of early manhood. The 
streets clean, well paved, no ruts, nor filth, nor refuse 
— but in every street and alley a perfect wholesome- 
ness. 

But we lingered not to see such — tempting as it 
would have been to examine the wealth of earthly 
products of the harvest, to examine the wonders 
wrought by mechanical genius, and the brain and hand 
of the human. For the seas, the mines, the fields con- 
tributed to all human wants here to perfection. 

Our feet were set for the City of The King so with- 
out regret we left behind us that wonderful Port of 
Entry with its almost incalculable riches of product. 

Ricardo soon left the broad, stately roadway which 
led straight to the City. The rather one of the many 
roadways — for away for miles down southward at 
stated places were the truly magnificent highways from 
the Port of Entry towards Jerusalem. 

Ricardo soon stood by a river — such a river — calm. 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 101 

peaceful, and clear as crystal. The banks on either 
side clad with grass and flowers which ran down to 
meet the waters — where flowers ended water began — 
no wild unkept banks of earth broken here and there 
by crevices and gulleys, cut by torrent, and storm, and 
rain. Nay, as a well kept garden on either side of the 
River, no refuse of any kind, no decaying vegetable 
matter, no broken off limbs of trees, decaying, moss 
grown, haggard whispering of death. And suddenly 
I was aware of — trees growing on either side of that 
River — fruit trees on which at same time one beheld 
the blossom, the fruit in all stages of ripening — and 
fruit just ripe, none too ripe, ready for the plucking. 
Fruit trees of various kinds, most winsome to the 
sight, most tempting to the eye. 

Ricardo sang out to me: 

"Take and eat freely — The King spreads a bounti- 
ful repast of fruit for who so ever will !" 

I did not want a second invitation, we plucked what 
suited the fancy; close to the murmuring stream, on 
the flowers and grass we lay and eat. Ah ! that first 
bite of the teeth in that new strange fruit that I had 
never seen before on earth, the deliciousness when the 
juice first came in contact with my palate — that morn- 
ing indeed I ate of Angel's food. And now I noticed 
tho' the trees covered with ripe fruit that none lay on 
the ground, not a single fruit rottening, nor decay- 
ing — no waste of any kind. And I went from tree to 
tree and no sign of the first speck of decay — perfect 



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fruit every one — not a mar, nor stain, nor thought of 
imperfection. 

Ricardo noted my inspection. 

''Aye, look thee sharp, my friend, and a golden coin 
I will give thee if a single fleck of imperfection you 
find on a single globe of fruit. Nay, golden pieces 
twelve times counted if you will find a fleck of imper- 
fection — even in any tree of This garden of The King. 
And come when you will — Winter in her ermine, 
Spring with her emerald, Summer with her rubies. 
Autumn with her gold, come here and ever find fruit, 
ripe fruit, ready for the lips. Every month has its own 
fruit — and never came one yet to be disappointed of 
ripe delicious fruit in The King's orchard. And the 
leaves, notice well the leaves, they are carried all over 
the world, should an accident occur — flesh injuries of 
the most grave, or slightest, by application of these 
leaves to the wounded part — immediate cessation of 
pain and perfect healing. Millions come to feast along 
this river, for know you that many thousands each 
day are coming to, and going from, the City of The 
Great King — but no matter when they came at all 
seasons, at all hours, ripe fruit rich and rare for all, 
none disappointed — and no waste, no decay, not a fruit 
too many for the fruitage is calculated by The King, 
and He allows no waste at His tables!" 



CHAPTER XIII 
THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING 

When shall I enter — when 
Shall my Lord welcome in — 
Shut out forever tears and sin! 

RICARDO now led forward to a cross street run- 
ning South; and after a good sized stretch had 
been covered turned into a broad avenue run- 
ning directly East. 

Some little ways ahead the eyes beheld an archway, 
over the street, of gracious appearance and splendor 
— approaching, one saw a very wide gateway — tall, ex- 
quisitely carved — pillars at either side, and springing 
from pillar to pillar rose the archway — the pillars and 
archway of carbuncle stones glistening in the sun with 
rare brilliancy. Nearing I beheld the name of one of 
The Princes of Israel carved over the archway — we 
were entering the city by the Gateway of — Asher. 
And now before my sight stretched, without a doubt, 
one of the straightest, and longest, and widest street- 
ways in the world. Not the only one for in that City 
three such ran East and West — three ran North and 
South intersecting each other — each in detail without 
perceptible difference. In the center a well paved 
roadway for all sorts of conveyances — such roadway 



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flanked on either side by a stream of water which 
made a pleasant murmur and cooled the atmosphere. 
On either side of each stream luxuriant shade trees 
which completely covered the broad side walks for 
foot passengers. Each side of the street stately struc- 
tures — immense hotels, each capable of holding many 
hundreds of guests. The architecture varied, solid, 
massive buildings, nearly all the rooms opened to the 
air — and so shaped that plenty light and ventilation 
in every room. None of the sky scraper buildings met 
the eye — some one story, and up to four stories — but 
all the ceilings high, lofty and finished with rare stone 
work and carvings — for lath work and plaster un- 
known in the buildings — and not a building but fin- 
ished in such a manner as to last looo years. 

The stores were mostly small, and each store only 
carried for sale a few articles in the same line of 
staples. Monstrosity stores, stores selling all and eve- 
ry article ever dreamed of, strictly forbidden — no 
monopoly allowed — and one price — plainly marked — 
so that even a child could not make a mistake. The 
heavy wholesale establishments alone allowed at Port 
of Entry. And no manufacturing of any kind allowed 
within the four squared city — no hum of loom, nor 
needles, nor hammer of machinery ever heard. Plenty 
of stores of the greatest variety — but no rivalry — no 
bargain counters — one could buy just as cheaply at one 
store carrying that line of goods as at another store — 
and the article of same price equal in manufacture as 
far as workmanship and material concerned. So that 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 105 

if a dweller or stranger in the City wanted a certain 
article he could do just as well by purchasing at the 
nearest store, as if had tried every store of such kind 
the city over. 

The four square City divided into even sections — 
three principal streets running from West to East — 
Each with a gateway similar to the other — at one end 
of City the three gateways — West end — had carved 
over the gateway the names of Israel's Princes : — 

Gad — Asher — Naphtali. 

Where such streets ended on the other side of the 
City — behold three similar Archways and the names 
engraved over the gate of entrance : — 

Joseph — Ben j amin — Dan. 

On the North side of the City three similar gate- 
ways, arches — and the names inscribed : — 

Reuben — Judah — Levi. 

These three streets ending at opposite end or ap- 
proach to the City from the South — gateways, arches 
— with names inscribed : — 

Simeon — Issachar — Zebulun. 

Now between these great roadways were smaller 
streets running parallel with them — wide streets with 
streams of water, shade trees, beautiful gardens — ^but 
nearly all private residences. Residences of all sizes — 
all descriptions — varied designs — each suiting the fan- 
cy of the owner for no rented houses in The City of 
The King. No landlords, no tenants in the old sense 
of the term. A prince of Israel may reside in a prince- 



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ly palace — and next door to him the cottage of an 
artisan. But every street, every alley scrupulously 
clean. No filth, no trash, no dilapidated houses, no 
shantys, no rookerys, no cooped up crowded tenements 
in the city of The King. Each child of Israel held his 
own lot, one as large as the other, of uniform size the 
home lot — plenty of space for green grass, fruit and 
shade trees — and flowers; ah, they ran riot and ram- 
pant everywhere. Roses climbed, and climbed to the 
roofs, grew with such multiplicity — so varied in color, 
size, and beauty to gladden the homes of the poorest 
in the City of The King. And every man of family 
held his own home — except a friend may pay him a 
visit for a space, no householder allowed to keep 
boarders — or let another family permanently reside 
with him. Home was hallowed — the privacy of home 
sacred — no outsider could abide permanently under the 
Home roof. 

The City was generally full of strangers. And at 
the Feast of Tabernacles crowded to its full capacity; 
and then most of the private houses thrown open with- 
out money or without price in the heartiest and most 
lordly hospitality to strangers whom they had, per- 
chance, never seen before. For no stranger who ever 
stepped inside of The City of The King ever wanted 
a friend — a welcome — plenty of bread, and a couch of 
ease and quietness. The Great Hotels not run for a 
profit — built, equipped and carried on for the accom- 
modation of the strangers visiting The House of 
Prayer. The payments asked for simply covered ex- 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 107 

pense — a minimum cost — and if any deficiency such 
defrayed from the general Treasury of The City. The 
comforts therefore at the maximum, the expense to the 
stranger — the minimum. All eat at same table, same 
bill of fare, same service, same style of sleeping places 
— and one paid, or not — the payment received with a 
thanks — the non payment not met with a frown. All 
were guests of The King if they so desired. But the 
presents some poured into The King's treasury made 
a deficiency a very rare thing indeed. And indeed it 
was very rarely the poorest did not pay what they 
knew was the stated price — but for which no bill was 
presented at their departure — no dun, no unpleasant- 
ness of any kind — simply Gifts received should one de- 
sire to give. 



CHAPTER XIV 

Walk through her many streets and see 
Perfection in most trifling thing, 
Beauty, adaptability — 
The Architect was — Christ the King. 

NOW he brought me to the center of the City — 
which was a very large square. At the heart 
of the square a most sightly imposing fountain, 
fashioned out of solid bronze, the figures and statues 
of silver. The fountain surrounded by beds of flow- 
ers, and flowering plants and bushes, all of tropical 
breeding, verdure and beauty. Ferns of the most del- 
icate sprays and branches lifted up slender stems; 
graceful palms stately and tapering aloft — high in air 
— Gorgeous flowers flung to the gaze, breasts of color 
charming to the eyes — The garden, or rather Park, 
was in display of color and wealth of bud and blos- 
som the most fascinating bit of earthly paradise I had 
up to this time beheld. Walks laid out in all directions, 
so that one to follow walked miles in a scene of fairy 
like beauty in a square a mile in length and breadth as 
the crow flies. 

And facing this beautiful spot on the four sides were 
rows of detached buildings — evidently Public Build- 
ings. Each Building of different architectural effect, 
but forming an impressive, stately, massive imperial 



110 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

set of buildings, with the lines .of their facades so 
running to the eye along the horizon, as to make as 
it were one harmonious effect that rested, while charm- 
ing the gazer. 

Now he brought me before one of the buildings 
which had rather a startling appearance — it looked as 
if carved out of solid water — as if it were a veritable 
house made of frozen waters — and, lo, carved over 
the portico were the letters : 

THE HOUSE OF WATERS. 

The house and its name surely well adapted to each 
other — for from foundation stone to the roof the ef- 
fect was water, water, water. 

And quickly mine eyes turned to the next building 
and here again a startling effect — one would have ta- 
ken it again to be a house built of water, and inside 
floating fish of all sizes, shapes, colors — so vivid the 
effect, that one could imagine the whole building one 
transparent wall of water, as if the ocean cleft in 
twain with fishes innumerable floating and disporting 
in the waves. And over the portals I read the name — 
each letter carved in little fish forms : 

THE HOUSE OF THE FISHES. 

Surely I was full of wonderment — and gazed speech- 
less on the structures — each very large indeed like the 
buildings of a World's Fair display — but of a glory 
of color and effect never dreamed of, nor obtained, 
in the olden times. I saw that Ricardo was watching 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 111 

me with kindly interest — his arm in mine — his eyes 
flashing with a light showing how his spirit rejoiced 
in seeing my rejoicing at the wonders about me. 

Towards the next building — and this effect was as 
if a mass of water fowls had been shapen to form a 
stately structure — and over the stately portico on the 
walls ran the words, letters formed as if composed 
of flying fowls : 

THE HOUSE OF WATER FOWLS. 

Then another building and it had the effect as if 
falling rain had suddenly been arrested in its down 
pour, and on its face played the glory of a magnifi- 
cent rainbow — giving a wonderful color effect — and 
over the portico on the wall letters, as if formed by 
raindrops : 

THE HOUSE OF THE RAIN. 

Then another building — walls covered as if with 
hoar frost — as one sees on a window pane ere the sun 
comes to melt it on a winter morning, delicate tracery 
of lines, where one may trace scene of mountain, flood 
and field. And so over the portico on the walls, letters 
made as if by fretwork and flowers of frost: 

THE HOUSE OF FROST. 

And then the next — such an effect! — A building 
without a single fleck of dirt, or darkness, or of any 
color except white, — white, clear white, not of a glar- 
ing effect paining the eye to look at — but as if snow 
had been pressed to form blocks of white, delicate 



112 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

white stones — blocks of snow from foundation to top- 
most freize — and the letters formed as if a boy had 
pressed snow in his fingers to shape them: 

THE HOUSE OF SNOWS. 

And so we came to another side of the square — 
and, lo, it seemed as if millions of blossoms of all col- 
ors, shapes, sizes, had been piled together but with 
wondrous effect and stately elegance of form — looking 
at it, one in very truth seemed to be smelling a scent 
of combination of scents that intoxicate as if with a 
draught of pleasure — and over the portico — against 
the wall ran letters formed of clusters of delicate blue 
forget-me-nots : 

THE HOUSE OF FLOWERS : 

Now this may be gazed on for years — and new 
combinations of color ever come afresh as if not seen 
before. 

But how relate them all — we passed : 

THE HOUSE OF TREES. 

THE HOUSE OF PLANTS. 

THE HOUSE OF VEGETABLES, and many oth- 
er houses. 

And, lo to another corner — and again I was startled 
— it seemed as if millions on millions of grains of 
wheat, and barley, and oats — and scores of other grains 
mingled together — yet forming slabs of massive stones, 
forming pillars, porticos, facades — and, lo, over the 



HOW THE KING KEIGNED IN AKIEL 113 

entrance place, formed on the wall letters as if made 
of large kernels of wheat: 

THE HOUSE OF GRAIN. 

And so from side to side of the square; gazing in 
rapture at these strange stately structures, until at last 
we stood once more before The House of Waters. 
Then impatient as a boy eager to know the truth of 
this matter — I led Ricardo to the nearest one of the 
many seats scattered over the square, and flinging my- 
self down, cried : 

''O Ricardo— tell me of these wonderful Buildings 
— where to their use — what do they represent?" 

"Well, O Friend, it gives me the keenest pleasure 
to see your delight and wonderment — then know, that 
in the Buildings around us are chambers in which are 
computed The Wants of The World. Men of old 
never seemed to realize that angels were their min- 
isters in earthly things. They saw not behind the ar- 
ras as it were, where the different Angels to whom 
God had committed the watch care of The World, 
wrought at their various duties. Men believed things 
came and went at haphazard — that things were not 
measured according to the wants of men, beasts, birds 
and fishes. It never seemed to be impressed on them 
that millions, countless millions of creatures of all 
sizes, every day, sat down to the Lord of Heaven and 
Earth's table to be fed. 

Did the necessary measure of wheat and corn, and 
flesh, and grass — come to creatures without some One 



114 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 

superintending it all? — were millions of sparrows to be 
fed each day and no calculation to be made as to 
where that vast amount of bread should be in readi- 
ness day after day, year after year, to their call and 
pleading? Who calculated how much flesh and milk, 
and grain, and fish, and fowls it would take every day 
to feed Earth's men and women — so plenty enough 
and yet no waste? For did it ever strike men that 
there is no waste, no great overplus from year to year, 
would indeed be enough, and none to waste, if all 
men their brother's keepers, and nations who wanted 
as brother nations. Nay, God's ministers must be 
mathematicians of no mean skill, exact in their figur- 
ing as to how much of each kind it will take, to feed a 
world of utterly helpless beings who but for His ex- 
ceedingly tender watch care would soon die of hun- 
ger. 

Now of old such overseership in the hands of An- 
gels — but in this age the Overseership in the hands of 
The Risen Saints. 

Each building has A Risen Saint as a Prince to or- 
der and direct the business of that special Division of 
Overseership for which the house erected. For in- 
stance: THE HOUSE OF GRAIN, That Prince is 
head over the Department which calculates to a pound 
the amount of various grains required to feed the en- 
tire world for that year. Under him are a great many 
Saints who help him — but he stands directly responsi- 
ble to The King for the amount of grain that will be 
required. Then the Saints under him are over the 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 115 

different provinces in which the world is divided. They 
carry out The Head Prince's orders, see that nothing 
hinders the yield — see that each province gives the re- 
quired quota, which will have to be produced to make 
up the entire amount of grain wanted for the World's 
food supply. A mighty task— requiring patient figur- 
ing, but then a labor of Love. To this building, to The 
House of Grains — come from over the world — the re- 
quest, the desire, and complaints of humanity — The 
Prince's position is no sinecure but love makes his la- 
bors a blessing. To be sure he is not constantly in The 
House of Grains but he has certain hours, and always 
there to meet any person from any portion of The 
World who wishes to see him — who comes asking for 
advice, for counsel or making complaints. 

Now at all the other houses the same order. The 
Prince head of that Department, his numerous and 
many helpers some at office work, more coming and 
going constantly to, and from various places, over all 
the habitable globe in pursuance to the wants of Hu- 
manity, and the Creatures under Humanity. 

Know that every person working in each Building 
are Risen Saints — none allowed to go through the 
Buildings entirely. Each building has an Audience 
Room for all Callers — but the problems worked out 
and solved all in the watch care of Risen Saints. The 
Angels now have nothing to do with the Government, 
nor for the providing for the wants of Humanity. So 
as you gaze around here on the various Buildings 
know, that here is determined what the earth shall 



116 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

yield in flesh, in foul, in oil, in wine, in corn, in wheat, 
in every product grown for use of Earth's inhabitants. 
Here the fall of snow, hail, and rain calculated — how 
much wanted in the various Provinces of the World. 
Here determined the amount of wool, hemp, flax, cot- 
ton and other innumerable articles wanted to clothe 
the millions of men, women and children of The round 
World. A mighty undertaking, a responsible position 
to occupy — for every creature, billions in number, de- 
pendent on their faithfulness to Duty — under the lov- 
ing guidance of The King of Glory." 

I pressed his hands — my heart was too full for 
words — but I lifted my cap and blessed The King 
for His loving care in satisfying "the desire of every 
living thing" in His Kingdom. 

"From the Risen Saints I heard of a book written, 
before The King came back, by Malthus, who had 
been much praised in England and elsewhere for his 
political economy — the system called — Malthusian, 
founded on the hypothesis that the population in- 
creased in a geometrical, while eatables only increased 
in an arithmetical ratio — therefore if growth of popu- 
lation was not checked, millions of the inhabitants of 
the earth would finally face famine, even starvation. 
This so-called wise philosopher did not read The 
Word, wherein it is written : "He shall open His hand 
and satisfy the desire of every living thing." He did 
not believe, so most of the so-called wise scholars, 
that the King would come back. 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 117 

So prevalent grew Malthus wisdom that others 
could see nothing but famine — if wars did not destroy 
thousands of people after several successive genera- 
tions. They discarded Jehovah's word : 

"There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the 
top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like 
Lebanon; and they of the city shall flourish like grass of 
the Earth." 

"Behold the days shall come, saith Jehovah, that 
the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the tread- 
er of grapes him that soweth the seed ; and the moun- 
tains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt." 
"The floors shall be full of wheat and the vats shall 
overflow wine and oil," — "and it shall come to pass in 
that day, that I will answer, said Jehovah, I will an- 
swer the heavens and they shall answer the earth, and 
the earth shall answer the grain and the new wine, 
and the oil, and they shall answer whom God soweth ;" 
"Jehovah shall open His hand and fill the desire of eve- 
ry living thing." "And in that day will I make a 
covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and 
with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping 
things of the earth". "In that day shall thy cattle feed 
in large pastures; the oxen likewise, and the young 
asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender 
which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with 
the foot." "For the earth shall be full of the Jehovah, 
as the waters cover the sea." 

I have heard that before the King came back that 
the nations did not obey the original command : 



118 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

"Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the Earth 
and subdue it," that the nation settled down and did 
not scatter — so that when people in China, India and 
Europe increased, the Rulers did not send them forth 
to the uninhabited places of the earth. South America 
and Africa only thinly populated, and there were mil- 
lions, and millions of acres of swamps and hills which 
the ingenuity of man could have made fit for human 
habitations, yet until He came back undrained and un- 
cultured. Why now, after four hundred years of the 
Reign of Peace — there are still millions on millions of 
acres to be subdued, and made fit for humanity — the 
world has now thrice the inhabitants than before the 
King came back — and plenty for all — no famine, no 
hunger ; and not any of the inhabitants need say for 
long, "I am sick !" 

So that you see Jehovah has to the letter fulfilled 
His words uttered thousands of years ago. 

And here let me say, what many have said, tho' no 
warrant in Scripture, — that the Earth will indeed be so 
populated that the cry will come: 

"The place is too strait for me: 
Give place to me that I may dAvell". 

Thou hast seen the stars — in some places thick as 
the leaves of a tree in summer — why not humanity go 
forth and populate the planets and stars when Jeho- 
vah said twice to man — 

"Be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly." 
He put no limit to numbers — therefore the idea has 
some ground to say, Man shall populate, and populate 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 119 

every planet and star that Jehovah shall create — fancy 
what a volume of song and praise that will be, of 
countless worlds on worlds of humanity — as one voice 
bursting in holy joy at the Pierced feet of Jehovah on 
His throne of Glory." ''You know how mockers 
sneered in "the waiting time" at what they believed 
were the limits of the Holy Land of the Jews : — "This 
tribal God of Israel — Jehovah was surely a tribal God, 
thinking in tribal numbers, giving such a small place 
for Israel to dwell in, so small a place as to be con- 
temptible!" 

Fools they were! And the Great Leaders of the 
professing Christian church then no better, who for 
so many centuries were blinded to the extent of the 
Land Grant given to Abraham — and confirmed in one 
particular to the War Chief Joshua — the Land of 
Promise included: 

"All the Land of the Hittites." 

Now Israel never conquered the Hittites, neither 
did they possess for one moment "All the Land of the 
Hittites," on account of their Rebellion against their 
rightful King, until the King came back again, and, 
with His word of mouth, possessed "all the land of 
the Hittites." 

The reason that Joshua did not conquer the land 
is told by Jehovah in these words : 

"I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, 
lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field 
multiply against thee." 



120 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

This nation, or confederacy of various tribes — The 
Hittites, held a mighty Empire for near one thousand 
years — once stretching from the Great River Euphra- 
tes to Egypt — and from Euphrates to the Aegean Sea. 
They only held Egypt for a short time; had several 
cities under tribute in Palestine for a time; but their 
southern boundaries proper were the lands of Syria; 
and on what was called the Land of the Hittites — the 
Israelites never to, one foot, of it possessed. Tho' it 
is mentioned that they did pay a tribute to King 
David. 

This stretch of land from Euphrates to the West- 
ern Sea once called Asia Minor, a land very, very, 
rich in minerals — a land of various climes — temperate, 
semi-tropical and almost tropical. 

Now before the King came back, it seemed strange 
that Our Lord should alone call special attention to 
the Seven Churches in Asia Minor, when other church- 
es, at other places, could have been shown displaying 
among tHeir members the evils, the heresy to which 
He called special attention. Christians then did not 
consider that as a Man He was David's heir ; and the 
promise to the blessed virgin was : 

"The Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of 
His Father David, and He shall reign over the House 
of Jacob forever." 

Here then was He not only to reign over the King- 
dom of David, but over the Land promised to Abra- 
ham, Isaac and Jacob ; so that our Lord Jesus in writ- 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 121 

ing to the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, as those 
cities were in His Kingdom, He had a perfect right 
to demand of them, spiritual allegiance; and it is re- 
markable several of the churches within easy reach of 
this Western Sea — the Western boundary line of the 
land of which He was The Rightful King. 

Then it was not strange, that when the churches 
become cold, indifferent, to His spiritual reign, that 
He did remove their candlesticks, and swept the most 
of them with the besom of destruction? 

Ricardo, it was significant that the entire portion of 
the earth that Jesus Christ could claim a legal right to 
rule over, should have been held for near five hundred 
years a prey to the Turks? Yet under the rule of a 
people who could not, in the strictest sense, be called 
Idolaters. 

"And though England had sinned grievously, as she 
had for centuries been known as "The Land of The 
Open Book" (the Holy Scriptures and in a manner 
gave it to the entire world) Jehovah of Hosts deliv- 
ered many Peoples unto her hands, how otherwise 
could one little Island dictate in a large measure to the 
nations of the earth? As one of her sons sang cen- 
turies ago: 

Lo, Thou hast been a Jewel Case to hold 
JEHOVAH'S Book, and wert exceeding bold 
To face all Nations who to God were cold. 

An Open Word that He who ran may read — 
And every other Nation Thou dids't lead 
In publishing, and wishing a good speed. 

And surely feared among the Nations Thou 
Wearing a crown upon the sea girt brow 



122 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

That never to a conqueror did bowl 

What was Phenicia, Carthage — even Rome 
For small the space their pushing footsteps roam- 
Compared to Thine — breasting all Ocean's foam. 

Heir to Phenicia, or her modern daughter — 
Whose restless spirit wandered every water — 
Alas, to leave o'er all a trace of slaughter. 

Surely o'er all the Earth the eye can see 
The seeds you planted grow luxuriantly — 
O'er the broad Earth Thy Daughters Nations bel 

And is it a fantastic — idle dream — 
All Nations held in check adown Time's stream 
'Til Thou hadst blossomed such God's wish I deem! 

For Greater Nations surely than Thy Throne — 
And yet as girding up Thy Skirts, alone 
The Colonizing Blessing seemed Thine own! 

Surely another Israel in God's hand 
He made Thee mighty — gave Thee vast command — 
The vastest Empire — smallest The Home Land! 

It seemed as He had wished and shaped for Thee 
The wide Dominion of an Open Sea 
And said — "Possess — Thy Birthright it shall bel" 

Ricardo, you are well aware Christians for cen- 
turies did not comprehend the meaning of Isaiah's 
prophecies about Tarshish — when he sang so often of 
this Sea faring nation, they took it for granted such 
quotations were already fulfilled — yet how they could, 
now, seems strange to us — for never could those won- 
derful words have been fulfilled until immediately be- 
fore the King's return. 

"Surely the Isles shall wait for me, and the ships 
of Tarshish first to bring thy sons from far, their sil- 
ver and their gold with them for the name of Jeho- 
vah, thy God, and the Holy One of Israel, because 
He hath glorified thee." 

Indeed! what other maritime nation could it have 
been said : 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 123 

"Ho! to the Land shadowing with wings which is 
beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. 

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea even in vessels 
of bulrushes upon the waters saying : Go, ye swift mes- 
sengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people 
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted 
out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have 
spoiled ! 

All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the 
earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the 
mountains ; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye ! 

In that time shall the present be brought unto the 
Lord of Hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and 
from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; 
a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land 
the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the 
Lord of Hosts, the mount Zion." 

''Ricardo, the pride of England did not care to hear 
Jehovah's warnings. They should have known from 
the context before and after that the warning when 
uttered, could not have been fulfilled by the old time 
Tarshish : 

"Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an East wind." 
"The day of Jehovah of Hosts upon all that is proud and 
haughty and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be 
brought low . . . upon all the ships of Tarshish." 

"But now we see England once stricken, now 

healed and forgiven for her once being foremost in 

giving Jehovah's Book to the Nations before The 

King came back." 



CHAPTER XV 

Sin hath a charm we may deride — 
Not easily is cast aside, 
Lures on as if a floiver strewn path — 
But ends in Everlasting wrath! 

THEN suddenly Ricardo said: 
"Now come and I will show thee the reverse 
side to the House of Life: — it is but right that 
thou shouldst also behold that — which men would fain 
banish from their minds — when they want to do as 
seemeth good to their own eyes and disregard The 
Word of The King." And so led outside of city 
walls, at some distance to a strange place surely neg- 
lected — as if few passed that way. We entered be- 
tween blind walls, along a pathway seemingly new not 
much used, bare, stony and rough, like a half paved 
street way falling into decay. Suddenly we came to 
a flight of stone steps that led downward to a sunken 
place. The stairway of black basalt, the flags left un- 
polished, in fact exceedingly rough, as if the stones 
forming the stairway had been roughly cut from the 
quarry with the most primitive of tools. Ragged edg- 
es standing up, so that one had to descend with care 
for the sharp angles would cause one's feet to slip, 
and to fall on such a stairway would indeed be dan- 
gerous. 



126 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

As we descended the first few steps it seemed as if 
a chill air had struck us ; I shivered and felt my blood 
tingle as if from a sudden shock. 

When we gained the lower level we stood still be- 
tween blank walls — but suddenly the walls ended and 
we stood in an open space — it gave me the idea of a 
square. 

Sullen cypress and willow trees grew thick and dark 
— the place was a blot upon the beauty of God's earth 
of sunshine. 

I shivered again — and tho' a dead silence around and 
not a single leaf quivered on the dismal trees — there 
seemed in mine ears the sobbing and bitter crying of 
storm winds, the sharp keen wailing which winds make 
through broken doors and windows of a desolate, de- 
serted house full of ghastly chambers. 

We entered a darkly shaded place where the faint 
semblance of a former pathway may be traced, for 
here grew the trees so heavy with their black limbs, 
sullen, dampish looking leaves — leaves that seem to 
end in prickly thorns, and so closely grew the trees to- 
gether that we had often to thrust aside the branches 
in making progress. Under foot the grass was high, 
coarse, thick, and dark colored — one almost stumbled 
in the luxurious growth of its repellent spear heads, 
which seemed too stout ever to have felt the South 
wind sigh among them. 

I was oppressed in mind and soul, and but for Ri- 
cardo I would have turned back and fled this horrible 
wood. 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 127 

I never saw Ricardo's face so solemn and awed be- 
fore, I could see the place jarred on his sensitive soul 
— and but that he deemed it as a duty to me to let me 
behold this place he would not otherwise have entered. 

It had a marked effect on Prince, the lion, who slunk 
quite close to his master as if he feared a something, 
and looked to the human for companionship and pro- 
tection. His head was down, the ears picked up as if 
he were listening intently for some far off noise — his 
large eyes restless, now rolled from side to side, then 
piercing ahead as if he expected a something to spring 
out from the gloom at him. His tail slunk close be- 
tween his hind legs, his whole attitude showing that 
he was afraid of this gruesome place. 

And tho' surely it was not more than a thousand 
paces from where the sunlight lived it seemed a most 
interminable journey until we stepped to a more open 
space. 

■Before us stood Three Houses — ^but so different 
from the Houses of Life we had left behind in the 
sunlit square. 

The Houses stood out grim, silent, lifeless, the tall 
trees behind formed a most depressing back ground. 
And the dead, dead silence of the place. Not the cry 
or stir of a bird, nor hum of bee, nor grasshopper 
song, nor the form, nor sound of beast; and of human- 
ity the place indeed was desolate. 

Life seemed absent in its every form — and I think 
it would have given my senses a pleasure to hear even 



128 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

the hiss of the most venomous serpent in the grass 
which covered up our feet. 

Three Houses — and the first house far the largest, 
an almost blank wall faced us. The stones were dark in 
color, but bare of any ornamentation in any shape. 
The doorway, which seemed to be the main entrance 
small, low and dismal, the few windows narrow and 
seemingly without glass, narrow slits with the most 
sinister look on them, so narrow that had it ever fallen 
there a sunbeam could scarcely creep through to lose 
itself. A more deserted looking prison house I had 
never seen before — not the least hint that bird, nor 
beast, nor mortal, were around or inside. 

And, lo, above the mean doorway, right across the 
building carved in raised stones I read the letters 
forming the words: 

The House of The Judgment of Sin. 

The next house smaller but no brighter in appear- 
ance. The builders had left the rough edges on the 
dark stones, and the eyes could with a little touch of 
the imagination shape from their cruel jags and points 
the instruments of torture shaped once in ages long 
ago by the devilish inventive genius of men to torture 
men and women who differed from them. 

And lo, it had an appearance of a body wasting 
away by decay and horrible pestilence — as if the house 
were a living thing suffering torture from the wast- 
ing away of flesh and bone and sinews — the thought 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 129 

to be sure a hallucination of a brain not in its normal 
condition. 

The windows seemed as if skulls laughed out at 
you, windows giving no light nor unveiling the gloom 
or whatever may be within. The doorway low and 
mean, the grasses grew close up to the door — show- 
ing, I was glad to think, not many visited that now 
seemingly desert charnal house. 

No face, nor form, nor any living thing — and yet 
somehow it were as if my inner sense, my soul's 
ears, were filled with wails of bitter lamentations and 
despair proceeding from victims within which the out- 
er sight of eyes may not see; no rustle nor sign of life 
from foundation stone to turreted roof. 

And, lo, along the walls were letters formed as if 
from cross bones and I read : 

The House of The Plagues. 

And then the last house, or chamber, or dungeon or 
pit horrible — the worst name seemed too good, too 
pleasant for this mean, dingy, dark, dismal abode. It 
was very small — and had the appearance of some 
shrunken, wasted thing. 

Only a fancy to be sure, and yet its shape to me 
of a huge famished vulture with drooping yet out- 
spread wings— a stone vulture that had indeed a living 
— I had almost written — soul ! And tho' of stone with- 
out a single window — and a doorway so low, so nar- 
row that it would have taken a struggle for the small- 
est man to creep into. And as I looked I thought that 



130 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

it is no stone house, look at the sharp and cruel beak 
standing for a doorway; see the eyes live as if they 
searched one's soul — a vampire to suck the blood of 
life. 

It was the most gruesome object that ever The King 
permitted to exist. 

I was glad to see nettles, I could not be mistaken in 
their shape, the first I had seen in all my wanderings 
before, I was glad to see tall nettles, and thick spear- 
headed grass grow so rank there around that doorway, 
that It must have been many, many years since any 
had entered at that ghastly doorway. 

And right across the dark wall, or horrible vulture 
— the whichever it may be — scrawled the words : — 

Tho House of Death. 

I had seen enough — by far too much — I was faint. 
Ricardo was about to say something, give an explana- 
tion — but I could never live to hear it there — I cried 
out as one in dire distress : — 

*'Nay, nay, Ricardo, — not one word here! Oh, let 
us run and see God's Blessed sunshine — aye life — 
once more!" 

We did not walk — we three ran as frightened chil- 
dren run from darkness and shadow of fear, ran to 
escape as if we could hear the rustle of foul wings be- 
hind us. 

And soon I cried: — 

"Thank God! we are in His presence once more!" 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 131 

The Living World was around me. i was a very 
boy full of gladness; foolish in my joy; I laughed at 
the sun, at the sky, at the trees, at the flowers. And 
from my soul and spirit fell a darksome mantle. I felt 
the blood in my heart running warm once more. 

And seated in the Square of The Houses of Life, 
at the fountain, the sunlight falling on us, the trees, 
the shrubs, the flowers laughing at us — telling us of 
The mercy of God, I heard this of Ricardo: — 

''How sorrowful to know that Humanity, even in 
this Golden Age, has a stain of sin in Body, Soul and 
Spirit — and unless each person relies on The King's 
Finished Work in Life, and Cross, and renewed by 
The Holy Spirit — he becomes a rebel, and, alas, in 
heart despises Jehovah. Now The Word says strict- 
ly: But the Sinner being an hundred years old shall 
be accursed. 

''And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all 
the families of the Earth unto Jerusalem to worship 
The King, Jehovah of Hosts, even upon them shall 
be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, 
and come not that have no rain; There shall be The 
Plague, wherewith Jehovah will smite the heathen 
1:hat come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles." 



CHAPTER XVI 

And who shall say, tho' sins forgiven, 
There are no jeweled tears in heaven — 

When past misdeeds led men astray f 
The King will zvipe such tears away! 

BUT attractive as The City was — my heart was 
set on seeing the most famous structure in the 
world — which Ricardo stated forever put to 
shame the greatest and most magnificent buildings 
ever conceived by brain of mortal men — For looking 
at the Sanctuary men in their hearts confessed — here 
was a structure which could not have been conceived 
by brain of man — and the wealth of the world could 
not furnish the materials composing such. For the 
precious stones in such vast proportions could not 
have been obtained had not The King created them as 
they were wanted for the Building. Ricardo's descrip- 
tion set my soul on fire to see it with mine eyes. When 
therefore we turned our faces Northward going out of 
the gate of Judah — in fact the most costly and most 
magnificent gate of all, for was not one of The King's 
titles "The Lion of The Tribe of Judah"? 

The roadway leading to the place of The Sanctuary 
was a very wide, stately, and imposing one. Night as 
well as day this highway never empty — the tread of 
the coming and the going constantly heard — immedi- 



134 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

ately outside of The Gate of Judah mine eyes beheld 
the high cUffs which Hfted the lofty tableland of the 
Levites' Portion above the surrounding country. As 
far as the eyes could see East and West ran the seem- 
ing precipitous tableland — the cliffs from the distance 
showed a mingling of rare colors — and the thought 
came, how is one to reach that elevated place, unless 
one went either to the Western or Eastern Extreme 
end? But the roadway ran sheer as it were to the 
foot of the cliffs — there were surely defiles where the 
tableland could be reached — and a generous pathway, 
for thousands every day wended their way to The 
Great Sanctuary fully 30 miles from the City of Jeru- 
salem. 

And on nearing the cliffs one could trace a wide 
stately roadway of easy grade winding up on the face 
of the rocks landing on the broad terrace above. But 
approaching a new wonder caught mine eye — at first 
I thought it a delusion of the eye — or perchance a 
place where the rocks had been worn smooth present- 
ing as it were a magnificent waterfall. But a body of 
water of that size falling thousands of feet would nat- 
urally make a mighty roar — But within a mile of it it 
gave no sound — It is but a mirage, I said to myself — 
and turned away mine eyes to see fresh beauty, fresh 
delight for every step brought to view fresh effects of 
flowers and trees. 

As so occupied by other things e'er I was aware the 
majesty of that sheet of water flooded my sight and 
senses. Verily a waterfall ! And I now within a few 



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hundred feet of it, yet the only noise the hum of 
music soft and soothing to the ear. Falhng in one 
unbroken sheet off the cHffs above — it was compara- 
tively speaking almost noiseless in its dash — and when 
I stood by its banks expecting to see a wild tossing of 
waters like to that below the falls at Niagara — I was 
amazed at the tumult made. The depth of that 
pool where it fell must have been very deep — of most 
tremendous capacity — for the water came to the sur- 
face white but in no angry whirlpools — the secret of its 
noiseless fall as mysterious as its living animating 
beauty. And here the stream parted, one stream to- 
wards Jerusalem to make it like a well watered gar- 
den, then one towards the great sea : the other to the 
Dead Sea — Curing it of its ancient curse, making it a 
sea full of fishes, then on to the Desert changing the 
eastern sandy wastes to gardens of beauty and life — 
for wherever the River of Life went — Barren deserts 
and sterile places blossomed to trees, fruits, flowers 
and grasses. And here were hundreds admiring this 
wonderful waterfall — for the sheet of water was 
spanned by rainbows making it indeed a very glad 
sight to the eye. 

And now I noticed what a broad majestic Roadway 
this winding round, turning on itself, the higher plac- 
es right over the lower — so easy of grade that a child 
unaided could have walked up that Road and feel no 
fatigue. And indeed I saw no tired people anywhere. 
Every one I had seen were indeed healthy looking — 
no pallid faces — no shortness of breath, but all with 



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limbs strong, firm of tread; with rosy cheeks, bright 
eyes — the most contented happy looking groups every- 
where. Upward on the winding road ; and' as high, 
and still higher we went the vision of the plains below 
indeed surpassingly fair — the eyes reached now the 
entire city of Jerusalem — and a good stretch of the 
Cantonment of Benjamin lost in the South. The air 
was exceedingly clear, for it was not defiled with smoke 
of any kind, the eye therefore could see a vast distance 
very distinctly. 

At last the top of the clifif reached — we were on the 
table land, and away to the North some twenty two 
miles away — one caught sight of four lofty towers, 
glistening precious stones, a high sharp spur of rock 
midway between the towers, and from the very top of 
the rock a curl of thin white smoke slowly ascending 
to a strangely beautiful bank or mass of clouds hang- 
ing motionless over the place — so I knew that tho' the 
dense mass of trees hid the body of the Sanctuary — 
still the four towers marked where Mount Zion stood, 
and that cloud — The Shekinah — the Resting place of 
Jehovah, the Royal Standard of The King. 

I gazed from the top truly fascinated by the lower 
World of beauty. The voice of Ricardo rang on 
mine ears : 

''How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob! and thy tab- 
ernacles, O Israel ! As the valleys are they spread 
forth, as gardens by the river's side. As the trees of 
lignaloes, which The Lord hath planted, and as 
cedar trees beside the waters ! He hath not beheld in- 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 137 

iquity in Jacob, neither hath He seen perverseness in 
Israel : The Lord His God is with him, and the shout 
of a King is among them. Look upon Zion, the City 
of your solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a 
quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken 
down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be 
removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be 
broken. But there The Glorious Lord will be unto us 
a place of broad rivers and streams." 

The Ransomed of The Lord now returned, now 
come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy and 
Gladness and sorrow and sighing have fled away!" 
"Fulfilled! Fulfilled! Fulfilled!" I exclaimed— "I 
thank Thee O Jehovah of Hosts that mine eyes have 
beheld it — not one single promise made to Israel have 
failed— all Fulfilled— O Redeemer King, I thank 
Thee!" I was on my knees, my hands stretched out 
towards The Sanctuary — my every sense filled with 
indescribable joy — 

And all the past came trooping to me — my half 
heartedness of by gone years — I arose to my feet — 
and over me came a flood of shame for unbehef of 
former years. I could see for long ages the indiffer- 
ence of The church to her King's command; then the 
further swinging of the pendulum to the very ex- 
treme ; when the church with its wild madness dreamed 
that it could by its own effort (and a little help 
FROM Christ) win the World for Him, and conquer 
Satan before The King came back — wild, foolish, mad, 



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delusive Dreams that could never be realized! And 
standing there contemplating the scene below me, I 
leaned over the stone balustrade which ran around the 
top of the cliff — and looked at Jerusalem spreading 
abroad, the red tile roofs peering out of the foliage, its 
stately avenues, its massive public buildings — ^my soul 
cried out — 

"Blind! Blind! Blind!" 
and unknowingly pressed my hands over mine eyes. 

Ricardo stared, grasping my arm — 

"What do you say, — Friend — What are you blind !" 

I noticed the quick anxious tremor in his voice — 

I quickly recovered myself. 

"Forgive me, Ricardo! I was not talking of actual 
blindness — but of a long past blindness that lay on 
men and women's mental and spiritual eyes, and have 
made them to err bitterly — and fatal to the times in 
which they lived — aye, a blindness worse than that of 
the eyes — for this blindness, I speak of, caused the 
church universal to stumble in its walk, bear a wrong 
testimony to poor Humanity, to whom God sent the 
Church, to be enlightened by her clear sighted min- 
istry. This fatal spiritual Blindness the cause of a 
multitude of errors — a stone of stumbling and rock of 
offense to poor suffering, needy, starving almost naked 
Humanity. Gazing below, around, I see That God the 
Holy Spirit in revealing to men in former ages of 
The Christ in His precious Book — revealed the Com- 
ing Glories, Beauties, Joys, Gladness, Blessedness of 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 139 

an Earthly Jerusalem — When The Leaders, The Pow- 
ers, The Preachers, The Teacher of the Church spir- 
itualized the whole matter — made Jerusalem a heaven- 
ly City. Now, now I see that had men been taught to 
take The Scriptures literally how different it would 
have been! — Yes, Ricardo — we have been selfishly, 
wickedly blind to the Holy Word !" 

'*My friend your confession is a common one. I 
have seen great men. Princes now among The Risen 
Saints, stand where you now stand, throw out their 
arms over this wall and cry — yes, cry bitter tears for 
their former blindness — but The King never left them 
sorrow long — for I have seen them suddenly lift up 
their heads and the light of the Glory of The King 
shone on their faces — they had the witness of forgive- 
ness in their hearts — that The King had no hard 
thought against them for having mislead His little 
ONES in the years long ago." 

"But the misery of the Blindness is — ^that we had 
the knowledge then, that while we prated — "The Gos- 
pel, the full Gospel" we were only preaching a half 
Gospel. We kept back the larger Truth, that of the 
Salvation of God for the body as well as the Soul. 
There were millions of men and women in the world 
whose life made very bitter in the struggle for the 
pittance — the crust — that kept body and soul together. 
We preached, we taught, as if The Christ's Death 
altogether a Redemption of The Soul — that the body 
mattered not — the body a paltry thing — full provision 



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for the Soul — plenty to eat and to drink spiritually, 
enough and to waste — thought The King utterly in- 
different to the rags and tatters that half covered the 
body — to the mean food, and not enough of it at that. 
We preached — contentment to the poor man — be "con- 
tented in that place of life in which it hath pleased God 
to call you !" Yes, a hovel foul smelling, in a yard 
filled with corruption whose quintessence trickled into 
their wells and cisterns until they drank of fever, and 
rheumatism — and all manner of diseases, born in foul 
tenement houses, humanity herded like pigs, until the 
mortality was even an offense to devils — the toiler up 
before the dawn broke in the East — the foul scrap of 
meat almost putrid and more often no meat — the crust 
of hard bread, the chickory cursed coffee — the slop of 
tea — and then the toiler to sweat shops, to the marts, 
where the poor were oppressed, defrauded, every finer 
sense trampled out of their souls, the brutal language : 
— ''Take this or starve!" The worse than slave bur- 
dens for the child that scarcely had tottered from the 
swaddling clothes of the cribs of straw called a cradle 
— the young maiden swallowed up by the bloodhound 
ever on the track of virtue, to rend, to tear, to trample 
on, to tread them down in the mire of the street, to 
make them an abhorrence to men and women. The 
men to have self respect kicked out of them by the 
brutal mills of Demand and Supply — O the bitter, bit- 
ter toil — and the reward — stagger home sick at soul 
to the foul smelling room — the unwholesome untooth- 
some bit of victuals their pittance could scarcely buy. 



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Lay down on rags and vermin infested straw, feel the 
drop, drop of the rain from the leaky roof — or the 
filthy water of the room overhead. Peaceful sleep — 
with a poor thin haggard wife trying to feed, a cry- 
ing, whimpering baby from breast that had no nourish- 
ment — when half naked boys and girls whined in their 
sleep, for the hunger pangs, huddled promiscuously to- 
gether like foul things smelling of the reeking gutter. 
And the man, the man who would have dared, and did 
dare, scorn, abuse, contempt of brutal employers — to 
win these little ones more bread, more rags, a better 
home — Oh ! the pity of it ! to have ministers sleek, fat, 
well dressed, representatives of The Christ — saying: 
"It is the will of God — your birth right — be contented 
with the mysterious workings of Providence! "These 
men made The King the master of Evil bitter things — 
it was His hand, the pierced hand who whipped them 
to their toil, starved them, arrayed them in rags — 
gave them a chamber of horror to dwell in ! The will 
of God Humanity should suffer! The lie Damnable! 
The lie outrageous. Blasphemous, Devilish ! 

God had spread abroad a fruitful earth — plenty — 
plenty for all humanity — But man's sins, man's greed 
had kept humanity from its lawful rights ! — O Ricar- 
do! you have no conception of the bitterness of life 
for over half humanity in the olden time. Chilled in 
winter ! Burned in summer ! Half fed, and half clad, 
millions had never a day's square food during the life 
time. And this God's will ! 



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O Ricardo! Ricardo! — We could not see — that God 
permitted such — ^but never willed it. Sin triumphant 
blasted and blighted, but sin we would! Men loved 
the ways of Cain — and shaking defiant hand at high 
heaven shrieked out: — 

"I am not my brother's keeper!" 

So sin blighted and Greed fattened on humanity. 
But the word of God — declared sin should reign for 
only a season — The Tempter, The Destroyer, de- 
stroyed Himself — That God was ever gracious would 
freely pardon sin through the shed blood of The King 
— that in that reign of sin who e'er took God at His 
word — The King would surely bless — That they 
should be raised from the grave to be Priests and 
Kings on a regenerated Earth. That Earth should in- 
deed be blest — and that He "would satisfy the Desire 
of every Living thing!" 

But we Christians took the first part, preached it to 
men — and it was indeed most vital, most precious — 
but it was only half The Blessed Gospel of The Christ. 

And poor men cuffed and smitten, feeling the pangs 
of the body, the stripes, the lashes of the whip of life 
— loathed this message for the Soul alone — felt that if 
The Christ had forgotten the Body — then they would 
have none of His soul cure. Why the liquor, the gin, 
the beer that gave them spirit, and life, and made them 
dead to their bitter pains, that lulled their misery, that 
gave them a little laughter — This Christ would fain 
take from their lips — the ministers called and unholy 
Draught! — Why not this Christ be half way fair? 



HOW THE KING BEIGNED IN AEIEL 143 

Not one of His well dressed ministers but fawned to 
the rich, sat at their tables, drank of their wines— was 
liquor on a white spread holy, and liquor in a saloon 
unholy ? Did a minister dare to preach hell directly to 
the Rich ! Some of them mentioned hell in a broad — 
very wide indefinite sense — but did they dare stand be- 
fore a rich man and cry : Drunkard, Thief, Adulterer, 
Liar! Nay all rich men, except a few most vicious, 
had a good time on Earth — and a better one above. 
But these ministers not afraid to stop any poor man 
and boldly to his face accuse The poor man of his 
wrong doing. They were not afraid to be brutally 
plain spoken to the poor, ''to discharge their whole 
duty to the poor man's face — directly, pointedly," with 
the index finger so close to the poor man's face — that 
he knew that he was indeed personally the man ad- 
dressed — "Thou art the man!" fiercely hissed in his 
ear. Is it a wonder — the poor man hated such min- 
isters — and, alas, hated their Christ ! — 

Did they preach a full Gospel to all? 

Tell the rich they were as in need of a Saviour as 
the poor, that it was God's will all human creatures 
should be well fed, well housed, well dressed. That 
God hated greed ! that men and women, brothers, sis- 
ters — ^that no rich man for selfish gain should oppress 
the poor, should not rob the laborer of his hire, nor 
take advantage of his necessities to grind his face and 
heart, and soul, and manhood in the dust and embitter 
life by giving the smallest possible pittance. Had The 
Christ Ministers preached of a coming certain judg- 



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ment — That The Lord of Sabaoth's ears were ever 
open listening to the cry of the distressed, that His 
eyes were watching and reading the hearts of employ- 
ers — and He would demand at the rich man's hands a 
fnll account of what had been kept back from the 
Laborer! The good things of Earth the Rich had 
stolen from the Poor. 

And had these Ministers come to the Poor man — 
Telling him it was not God's will he should be home- 
less, naked, hungry — That The Christ was an elder 
Brother who loved him, who felt for him in all his 
pangs, his bitterness, his distress — That He was a 
most merciful Saviour forgiving sins — ready to 
cleanse, beautify if the man placed only simple reli- 
ance on His finished work — Redemption through His 
blood, the forgiveness of Sin, and that Sweet Peace, 
"the peace that passeth all understanding which the 
world could neither give nor take away" — was now a 
gift to be at once received — enjoyed, that Peace would 
till his soul, his spirit, his heart, take the sting of op- 
pression from him, take the bitterness of life from his 
lips — lift him above the daily frettings, cares, worries 
of life — ^^and that he would ever know walking at his 
side The Crucified, to help, to strengthen, to lift the 
load, to rob the harsh word of its sting, and hold the 
blessed future ever to his eyes. The minister should 
have shown him from the Written Word That The 
King would soon come back ! That tho' the poor man 
had died, and buried in a pauper's coffin, and potter's 
field — still that poor body crushed, and maimed, and 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 145 

disfigured by toil, the football of poverty — should arise 
a beautiful Body — like to The Christ's! and should 
Reign and Rule with The Christ over a happy Hu- 
manity for ever more. That no general judgment of 
wicked and good together, no making a grand bonfire 
of the Earth — but a renewed Earth — a blessed Hu- 
manity — 'The Earth filled with the Glory of the 
knowledge of The Lord as the Waters cover the great 
sea." The poor man who had accepted Christ in his 
days of misery — now Priest, King — blessed forever 
more." 

Ricardo pressed my hand — 

'T have never seen the poverty you describe — I have 
never seen a hungry, naked, homeless man in all my 
days — I think, however, I can like the faint shadows 
of a dream touch a little of the bitterness you describe. 
The fatal mistake of the Leaders of The Church in 
far off ages — They forgot God wanted in man a three 
fold person. The Godhead a Trinity — the Godhead 
wanted a three fold person to love Him. Man also 
despised the Beautiful Body God made for him, would 
be an angel — a spirit — misread God's desires, wishes, 
aim and end. Foolish desire of man to be a spirit 
alone — had God wanted only angels, spirits, He could 
have with a word filled the universe with them with- 
out entailing on The Christ the tremendous sufferings 
He had to undergo — Nay, the flesh, the body of men 
and women just as precious in God's eyes as the soul, 
the spirit. It was His wish a redeemed body should 



146 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

serve Him — and such will serve Him through all the 
ages of eternity — linking with soul and spirit." 

The roadway leading towards the Sanctuary bor- 
dered with stately Palm trees — making an avenue of 
rare delight to behold. All the way at both sides 
stretched flower beds, gardens of the highest culture, 
in the beds may be found flowers of the tropical, semi- 
tropical and temperate zones in full perfection of beau- 
ty. Resting places, rose and lily covered bowers with 
easy seats where one may talk with friend or stran- 
ger. But the air so reviving, our spirits so bouyant, 
full of energy, our feet felt not the fatigue that the 
many miles we had covered would warrant. Some- 
thing in the atmosphere dispelled thought of languor or 
weariness. The fresh beauties that came ever more at 
every footstep lured us on as if a magic cord were 
hurrying us along. We soon entered The Possessions 
of The Levites — Parks, Gardens, Hills, Dales, Valleys, 
Heights, dotted every where with dwelling houses — 
except a small vegetable patch here and here, some pet 
hobby of the owner — the whole stretch given over to 
flowers, gardens and parks. No grain fields, no culti- 
vated farms. Pasture lots where sleek cows stood 
knee deep in luxuriant grass. 

We turned from the broad high way (that run 
straight as an arrow from the gate of Judah to the 
Sanctuary) to another roadway that lay along the 
Beautiful River of Life. So calm, majestic, full to the 
banks, the trees ; the grasses, the flowers bending down 
to kiss the life imparting water. No unsightly gullies, 



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no broken banks showing the yellow clay — no decay- 
ing timber — but a stream with banks which loving 
hands constantly tended and made wholly clean. That 
was a walk — the voice, the happy voice of the human 
sounding in height, and hollow, and level. The hap- 
py laugh of men and women, of youth and maiden, 
of children. Ah, a paradise indeed — fair above, fair 
below, joy in every human voice, joy in every song 
of bird, joy in every tree, in flower, in grass — all full 
of life — the very stones beneath our feet seemed to 
pulsate with a happy life. And now we were nearing 
The Sanctuary — my heart was like a fluttering bird, my 
spirit stood a tip toe eager to behold it. I was a happy 
child. I had no care, no sorrow, no anxiety, all a 
perfect peace, all atremble as it were with expecta- 
tion — but not with the old time nervousness — but in 
an ecstasy of pleasure, a man with the happy longings 
of a boy expecting joy. 



CHAPTER XVII 

THE HOUSE OF PRAISE 

Not here a sermon, prayer, address, 
But House of Praise where all confess 
Christ's Finished work alone could Bless. 

NOW at some distance from it I carefully kept 
mine eyes from watching each of the outlines 
— the prominent features — that would natural- 
ly be seen as I approached nearer. I wanted to see it 
as a whole — to have it burst on my vision at once — a 
thing of rapturous beauty, for Ricardo had often said, 
"It was the most Beautiful Building in the world — a 
building planned and carried out under the supervi- 
sion of The Great King Himself." I therefore would 
not look up to see the immense towers that could be 
seen miles and miles away. The broadway which led 
to it was well filled by happy parties — some like our- 
selves going to; other returning, a rapt satisfied look 
on each face — a beautiful silence mostly on the face, 
which comes over a face when one has seen a belov- 
ed one, talked with them, and then happy at heart 
comes away, the beloved voice still in the ear, the 
words of the beloved which one treasured in the 
heart as they fell from beloved lips — thoughts, words ; 
that you now bring up from their nestling place in 



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your heart — you meditated on them — they are so fair 
to the inward eyes, so sweet to the lips to con them 
o'er and o'er — and in this mood you want to walk 
alone as it were — unvexed by another's tongue, to 
bring out all your secret treasures which you would 
feast your eyes on without interruption. They had 
seen — and if they wanted to, they had spoken to The 
King! That matchless condescension on the part of 
The Creator of The Universe was surely a source of 
infinite joy to every human heart that loved Him. 

Thus I watched the crowds — could well tell the Na- 
tionality of each, for when the King came back the 
radical change in human nature was the heart, the 
will, the effections — not the dress, the manners, the 
customs. The change of the nation was the turning 
of the mind to The King — ^the casting away of every 
false religion from mind, from thought, from act — 
all olden idolatry, superstition, demonology gone — 
and the perfect worship of The King alone allowed, 
alone supreme over all the earth. But The King in 
gracious goodness did not in any manner insist on 
change in manner, and modes of dress. In fact Na- 
tional traits still strong in features, dress and outward 
manner. 

•So one here saw — Japanese and Chinamen in their 
rich flowing silken robes; saw the representatives of 
the vast population of India with their white turbans 
and clean white thin clothing, but now no larger with 
only waist strips for a covering. All decent and in 
order; but one may see there an Arab dressed as 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 151 

Arab still — except that their women still swarthy, 
richly dressed, gold rings on ankles, in ears, on their 
arms walked with unveiled faces. The Spaniard 
there ; the light hearted more polite than ever French- 
man ; the sturdy, stolid Dutch ; the ponderous German ; 
the dark haired races of the South. The bronze col- 
ored African — for now the darker colors had disap- 
peared — and to the children of Ham was once more 
restored the bronze beauty of their mighty forefathers. 
The woolly hair, the thick lips had vanished — The 
King had heard the cry of the Ethiopians — had lifted 
the curse pronounced by Noah — and now they were 
indeed a noble looking Race — stalwart, mighty men, 
handsome, bright of wit, sunny in character — pro- 
ducing some of the sweetest and rarest of Earth's sing- 
ers — a Wonderful Saviour surely had The King 
proved to the dark Races of The Earth — populating 
once, "the dark places of the Earth full of the habita- 
tion of cruelty." 

And there our Anglo Saxon — no longer domineer- 
ing, the lust of conquest in his eyes, the daring brav- 
ery of heart and hand that would not own defeat — 
with the ambition to have the Nations of the Earth own 
them as Lords and Masters. But now their foolish, 
wild, mad, drunken dream was over, they wondered 
now how could their forefathers, with The King's 
Revelation in the Book in their hands, have ignored 
the place of the chosen nation, now acknowledged 
by all nations to be the Supreme Rulers of the World 
under the Rule of The King. I saw them all — and 



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all in friendly intercourse, here the owner of the whit- 
est face linked arm and arm with a son of Ham. The 
different Nationalities seemed to fade from every mind 
— Brotherhood of man now a fact — not a theory — a 
dream ? no, but an unquestionable reality — The King 
had settled The Race question forever — no one dis- 
cussed such now, The Coming of The King had set- 
tled the vexed questions forever — Love had been the 
simple solution of problems over which the World had 
raved and stormed for thousands of years. But it was 
Love with Infinite Wisdom, and all powerful miracu- 
lous majesty behind it — The King only could lift the 
Satanic veil on human eyes and give the true Light. 
I turned swiftly and lifted up mine eyes: 

And there it stood! 

A Love Thought of The King that bloomed to re- 
ality in Jewels and Precious stones of inestimable 
value. 

Well did the Shepherd King of Israel sing in rap- 
turous reverie: 

"Walk about Zion and go around about her: tell 
the towers thereof, Mark ye well her bulwark, con- 
sider her Palaces !" Before me stood a vast Building 
fully a mile in length. In fact a building four square 
facing the cardinal points, each side a mile from end 
to end. At every corner an immense tower — there- 
fore four towers. Now the North side before which 
we stood was pierced by twelve doorways — each ex- 
actly alike in every detail — in length, breadth, height, 
material, ornamentation to the smallest minutia. The 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 153 

outside wall that ran along the Building (Pierced at 
equal intervals by the eleven doorways) was twelve 
feet high and twelve feet in thickness — this wall rest- 
ing on a sapphire foundation. The Wall built with 
wonderful colored stones. Each Gateway was built of 
Carbuncles, twenty six feet high, two doors to the gate 
each twenty feet wide, each door two leaves, one for 
exit the other for entrance. 

The depth of the gateway going to the inside of the 
building one hundred feet — and at either side at equal 
distanceis from each other sprang up immense columns, 
of palm tree appearance, each of the eight columns 
along the passage one hundred and twenty five feet 
high. From top of column to top of column sprang 
arches 50 feet from column to column — therefore four 
arches over each gateway making a kind of open roof. 
Between each gateway sprang columns every 50 feet 
from center to center and from top of one column to 
top of the other sprang arches, so that from corner 
tower to corner tower a long row of exquisitely carved 
columns crowned by graceful arches — producing a 
most magnificent outline of grace and beauty — the 
spaces between the outside columns covered and shut 
in by a lattice work of agate stone. Each of the four 
corner towers was four hundred and eighty feet high 
and three hundred and sixty feet square at the base. 
Colossal towers, but still seeming light, airy with cham- 
bers over chamber, the windows of agates, the towers 
built up with precious stones of radiant colors. 

And over the whole a most wonderful light — shin- 



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ing soft and clear from the Home of the Saints over- 
head, so that it was lighted entirely by a light inde- 
pendent of the sun, moon and stars — with the won- 
derful property that night and day the light was steady, 
unchangeable, and never a shadow in the entire struc- 
ture — nothing in that house to denote the changing 
hours, nothing to indicate that in the outer world it 
was either night or day. It was a perpetual noon, and 
never a shadow in any part of the Sanctuary visible 
to the human eye. 

And, lo, a most wonderful flow of water, running 
along the side of the building so that it was impos- 
sible for one to enter without going through the wa- 
ter. Under each gateway came forth clear sparkling 
water without a shadow of impurity. Each of the elev- 
en streams met at a certain distance from the build- 
ing and in one stream flowed southward. We passed 
through the stream, the water came to our ankles so 
that every foot was cleaned from any impurity, from 
dust, and made indeed a most refreshing feeling to 
the feet. Outside of each door two at each side were 
four large slaughtering blocks where the animals for 
food and sacrifice were slaughtered. The entrance was 
reached by seven steps, I noticed each step a solid slab 
of sapphire — unworn a hairsbreadth by the millions 
of feet that had gone up those steps. The floorway 
inside the gateway sapphire. I noticed one door for 
those passing out, the other for those going in. Inside 
the door, the hall way, if we may call it so, divided by 
a low partition so that you could not pass from side to 



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side. Ricardo told me the law of the house was very 
strict on this point — one entering in at the North to the 
inside of the Building could not return but must go out 
at the South end. This to preserve order, and have no 
unseemingly confusion — It was imperative to one and 
all. At the doorway we were met by The Levites, 
dressed in linen garments, who smilingly bid us wel- 
come. They knew Ricardo well, and the meeting was a 
very hearty one indeed. One, noticing my outer gar^ 
ments rather soiled, took me to a little closet, of which 
there were several along the side, and taking off the 
soiled one, put on m.e a linen garment, and brought me 
back to where Ricardo stood waiting. 

'Thou knowest Ricardo where to go — your friend 
will have a good guide." Then turning to me, ''Other- 
wise I would go with thee to show thee thy heart's 
desire. May The King's peace go with thee." Thus 
dismissed, arm and arm, we went forward. I noticed 
the depth of this building one hundred feet, then, lo, 
we stood facing another row of buildings similar in 
every particular to that shown by the front of the 
building. Now on the inner side of the outer build- 
ing a stately porch running the entire length of the 
building. The two buildings stood two hundred feet 
apart — along the face of the inner building ran a 
porch, a covered colonnade. The Court between the 
two buildings, one mile in length and near two hun- 
dred feet wide stood uncovered open to the sky. Now 
I noticed that each building had three stories, or gal- 
lery chambers — Now between gateway and gateways 



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were chambers each fifty feet long, fifty feet high and 
thirty one feet wide. Such chambers airy, lightsome, 
with carved work on sides and ceilings of exquisite 
design. And these chambers were well filled by crowds 
of smiling faced happy, contented mortals, no strang- 
ers — all brothers and sisters, none neglected. The mer- 
ry laugh, the happy words, the animated features — 
surely a delightful company to see. And upward 
chamber above chamber, at the upper one a rare sight 
came to me. They were banquet chambers and here 
chamber after chamber filled with guests — served by 
the Levites — with fresh sweet bread, the finest of 
meat, the rarest of wines, the ripest of grapes — For 
The King kept open banquet hall night and day, the 
table ever spread, for no hungry person could meet 
The King, and no hungry person ever went from His 
door. It was verily what the Prophet foretold three 
thousand years before "A feast of fat things." 

Then he brought me to one of the great corner tow- 
ers — and, lo, it was there in the truly magnificent 
kitchens the Levites baked the bread, and boiled the 
meats which were placed before The King's guests. 
Mighty kitchens surely when at the four towers food 
for a million souls could be readily prepared, for during 
the Feast of Tabernacles millions were fed at The 
King's tables. 

Passing through one of the gateways of the inside 
building we suddenly came face to face to another row 
of circular buildings. "How beautiful! How beauti- 



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ful !" I exclaimed standing before the new wonder in 
rapturous delight. 

Behold a structure two hundred feet high of several 
stories two hundred feet in length, two hundred feet 
in depth. And then thirty of such structures, each 
standing separately a covered way between each — 
forming a mighty circle of three miles in circumfer- 
ence. The building before us had a raised floor, steps 
going upward, now on one side stood a mighty column 
on which the various stories were carried and arch 
roof rested — on the other side the carved figure of a 
cherubim each cherubim two faces — one the face of a 
young man, the other the face of a young lion. So 
going up one flight of steps a lion's face on one side 
a column on the other, the next flight of steps a 
man's face on one side and a column on the other. 
There were no entrances at the sides, one could not 
pass from house to house without coming to the front 
of the building. Inside were spacious lofty chambers 
and, lo, they opened to the inner circle of all. And 
there was seen a spot open to the sky — a holy place 
where no human footstep trod once the place had been 
finished and blessed by the constant presence of Je- 
hovah. For these thirty circular buildings surround 
Mount Zion whose peak rose high above all the build- 
ings. And, lo, on the top of Mount Zion an altar place, 
and above the altar place The Cloud of The Glory of 
Jehovah. Ever rested there, a cloud by day, and a 
flaming cloud of Glory by night. Now the top of 
Mount Zion had been formed so as to be flat topped 



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— on which was built an altar called The Lion of God, 
on which altar every day was burned a sacrifice. 
Around about the raised altar a place where The Sons 
of Zadok (Risen Saints) tended the sacrifices. At 
each of the four corners of the Altar were horns and 
from these gushed water flowing down the hewn path- 
way which led up to the altar from the ground below. 
This water ran under the buildings then came out 
from under each threshold of the gateways forming 
outside a veritable river of Life, flowing down the 
sanctuary place, watering Jerusalem — a stream to heal 
the waters on the Dead sea, a stream on whose banks 
grew the trees whose fruits changed every month and 
whose "leaves were for the healing of the nations." 
Now while the Levites slew, prepared and made ready 
the sacrifices they were not permitted to enter in the 
Holy of Holies and put the sacrifices on the altar — 
"And The Levites that are gone away far from Me, 
when Israel went astray, which went astray from Me 
after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. 
Yet they shall be Ministers in My Sanctuary, having 
charge at the gates of the house; they shall slay the 
burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and 
they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, 
and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; 
therefore have I lifted up Mine hand against them, 
saith The Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity. 
And they shall not come near unto Me, to do the office 
of a priest unto Me, nor to come near to any of My 



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holy things, in the most holy place ; but they shall bear 
their shame, and their abominations which they have 
committed ; But I will make them keepers of the charge 
of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all 
that shall be done therein." 



CHAPTER XVIII 

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES 

Peace, Plenty, Joy for everything 
When Jesus Christ is Lord and King. 

LO, The Feast of Tabernacles! 
A universal holiday time — From Sea to Sea to 
the uttermost bounds of the Earth a cessation 
of active labor — The providing of food alone the la- 
bor performed — and that to minimum — for fruits 
plentiful — and no drudgery allowed. Booths of fresh 
branches made a shelter — a home — for that interval 
for every family "the world round". The streets of 
Cities, towns, villages full of cool green resting places. 
A universal joy — for not a cry of distress, lamentation 
nor woe! Plenty — pressed down — running over the 
bin, the vat, the store room. All comfortably clad — 
nothing shabby, mean nor scanty. Not a house all 
over the broad earth had a case of sickness. Perfect 
health — in heart and brain and limb. Songs of Praise 
the world over from all nations, and peoples, and 
tongues. A glad time for children, for boys, for girls, 
for youths, for maidens, for men, for women, for the 
aged grey haired sire and mother — no break in the 
family circle, not a face to be mourned for as van- 
ished ever more. And such public gatherings — and 



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one marked contrast to christian gatherings of the long 
ago — the almost utter absence of prayer — there was 
one general confession of sin — a prayer for help, guid- 
ance, and keeping from sin, but that once made — no 
further wrestling, crying, nor appealing. The faith of 
Christ triumphant — every creature under Heaven had 
heard the Gospel of Good News — a free Redemption 
through the Blood and Offering once made by The 
King to take away sin, simply trusting in the Blood 
and Merits of The Christ brought forgiveness, accept- 
ance and fellowship with the Eternal God. Therefore 
the revival meeting days passed away. There was to all 
men's sight — A Risen Saviour, a Kind Brother, A crea- 
tive Universal King ! whose wish or nod — changed con- 
tinents, brought forth Islands from the depth of the sea, 
dried up Rivers, made fountains in sandy desert, wa- 
ters, changed currents. Oceans, streams — made moun- 
tains rise gloriously, and disappear at will, made broad 
valleys, fair savannahs, mighty prairies — constantly 
showing His creative Power and Imperial fiat ! There- 
fore while some hardness of heart, and some secret 
fear of The King — no open rebellion, for such 
crushed out immediately. But as a whole, a heart al- 
legiance to The King — who with His magnificent 
bounty opened "wide His hands to satisfy the Desire 
of every living thing." 

Then what had mortals to pray for — nay, the serv- 
ice now Praise by lip and musical instrument. And 
in the great halls provided for Praise in every City, 
town, village hamlet — the singers and Players of all 



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musical instruments lead the services. Eloquence there 
to show men and women how much they owed to The 
King for His Divine Graciousness. 

Then, see over all the earth eight days of universal 
cessation from Labor ; Universal singing and Praising 
— And not a Kingdom, nor country, nor City, nor 
town, nor district that did not send a credited repre- 
sentative to the Great Feast at Jerusalem or present 
themselves to give homage to The Great King. And 
people went of their own good will — for to all was the 
invitation given — all made equally welcome there. But 
it was obligatory from all districts throughout the uni- 
verse to choose men, representative men every year to 
send with them greetings to the Capital to show their 
love, esteem, submission and thankfulness to The 
King. 

At Jerusalem The Blessed Joy reigned Supreme. 

The Feast of Tabernacles in the Holy City and at 
the Sanctuary the Greatest of all the feasts of the 
year. 

Jerusalem then filled and ran over — the surround- 
ing country taxed to the full capacity — but there was 
no overcrowding. No matter how many million came 
there was always ample provision of good things to 
eat — and a^ to a lodging place, under the blue sky the 
woods, and vales, gave bed chambers — for one could 
sleep in the woods without fear of any sickness. But 
Love, and Loving order reigned supreme — and it was 
wonderful how much inconvenience Love can suffer 
and yet be sweet. A grand equality reigned in every 



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heart — in love each preferring the other, society's 
vexed question of precedence was fully solved. And 
from childhood men and women trained to have love 
reign in their thoughts — That Royal Law of Christ the 
standard which all sought to attain — *'Do unto others 
as you would have them do unto you!" — This simple 
rule solved the questions which were vexed problems to 
the olden age — the great rock of Selfishness on which 
more people made shipwreck than on any other sin — 
causing such shame, sorrow, misery and bitterness to 
humanity, was, by this rule hurled from its place in the 
human heart — buried in the depths of Love Eternal. 

So millions came to Jerusalem. 

From North, from South, from East from West — 
humanity from every zone gathered here — not for 
gain, not for selfish pursuits, simply to behold and see 
—The King in His Beauty ! 

By Rail from the Orient from China, India, Siberia 
and from the vast stretches of central Asia — from the 
Occident — France, Spain, Italy, Norway, Russia and 
the Central countries of Europe. By the sea from 
America, Australia, Africa, Greenland, and from the 
far off islands of the seas. The great ships of com- 
merce were one and all for weeks and weeks engaged 
in bringing this happy, laughing, care free tribute of 
Humanity to the feet of The King. 

Ah, such a holiday — no anxious thought, no troub- 
led thought of fear of danger blighted the hearts of 
those that left their homes, nor of those who staid at 
home. One left his business, his family — all that 



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makes life sweet for a time behind him — set out, 
knowing well when he returned he would find all 
things as he left them. No death, no sickness, sor- 
row, nor care would cross the threshold of that home 
during his absence. His business life would not suf- 
fer, no dishonest official would rob or steal, no rival 
would rob him of his customers, no opponent try to 
blight his business career. And if the goer a clerk, a 
hired man he knew full well he could feel confident his 
master would not declare his place vacant, hire anoth- 
er in his absence — the employment still his on his re- 
turn. And with this thought in every heart, and mind, 
and soul the millions who entered Jerusalem gave 
themselves up entirely to enjoy, to their utmost capaci- 
ty, the Royal cheer of every kind provided by The 
King, without money and without price — for this the 
great rule of The Feast— Not a single guest entering 
Jerusalem forced to pay a single penny for accommo- 
dations. An open table spread — of meat, and wine, 
and bread — and none to say them nay, to those who 
could not pay. The bounty of The King His free will 
offering to all of Human kind ; and here may all men 
find a loving heart and hand, one that could under- 
stand the secret of their soul, and Love's supreme con- 
trol. And bitter jarrings cease, Love give them 
perfect peace. So to the Feast they came with glad 
hearts, smiling faces, sparkling eyes, without the shad- 
ow of a single care upon their souls. 

And singing — ah, such singing from dawn to mid- 
night chimes. Such groups of maidens and youths, 



166 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

bands, hand in hand, singing gay carrols — and merry 
love songs — songs of cheer, songs of gladness — and 
all without a jar, no burst of vanity, not a heartache. 
Wit, gay bright debonair — wit with unconsciousness of 
a wrong — wit without a sting — wit given in such a 
manner that the object of the shaft had no pangs to 
hear of it. 



CHAPTER XIX 

The Feast of Tabernacle now 
Brings laughter, sweetness to each brow. 
For it the greatest Joy will bring — 
The Whoso Will — can see The King. 

FOR several days before the Feast — the woods 
around Jerusalem were filled with merry throngs, 
cutting branches from Olive, Pine, Myrtle, Palm, 
and from thick trees and bringing them to the City. 
The young folks made quite a festival over the first 
booths erected for the year. A band of stalwart 
youths, each with a maiden, had gone up to the woods 
and selected the fairest, best and thickest boughs and 
branches. When each of the youths had cut the best 
branch obtainable, or that which suited the fancy, and 
the maidens each secured a branch, two by two, a 
maiden and a youth, branches on shoulders they faced 
City wards. Before went two, not bearing branches, 
but with pipes made from reeds, making a soft mel- 
ody, and playing the air of a song which all the maid- 
ens sang — and then the refrain caught up by all, un- 
til every voice — male and female — swelled out lustily 
and bravely. Down the City street they came, the peo- 
ple on each side of the street watching, smiling, and 
saluting them. In the large square in the center of 
the City, the young people soon were erecting a spa- 



168 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

cious booth, the youths did the building — the maidens 
did the decorations. The places all round crowded with 
happy people — men, women, boys and girls — and sure- 
ly all had a merry time. For Love in every heart — and 
all the deeds, actions, and words sprang from gentle 
souls who would do no evil deed. 

Soon the entire city alive, along the broad streets 
booths sprang up. Before every private house, ei- 
ther in garden before the house, or in the street im- 
mediately before, the dwellers were busy making and 
shaping the cool arbors — and when finished the streets 
of the city were indeed a very fair sight to see. 

And to accommodate the many strangers the place 
of The Levites also invaded, the builders working mer- 
rily in lawns, fields and pastures so that every one in 
Jerusalem, and all the strangers who would come to 
the Feast could live and sleep in booths for the seven 
days. 

And in the Sanctuary great preparation made to 
feed the millions with at least one meal every day of 
the feast. The loaves of bread were piled up uncount- 
ed — all made from the finest wheat of the land. The 
great vats of wine filled to their capacity; the meat 
cooked and kept in the cool larders, may well astonish 
the gaze, — the best meat, the best bread, the best 
wine obtainable, for when The King spreads a ban- 
quet it was of right, royal cheer. The presents 
brought by the twelve tribes for The King's table in- 
deed ample ones — all the pasture places which lay be- 
tween The Levites Portion and the great sea — held 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 169 

immense herds of kine, and flocks from Kedar and 
rams of Nebaioth — presents brought by the grateful 
hearts of Israel for the service of The King. And 
there also the immense store houses where the grain, 
and oil, and wine stored all free will offerings to The 
King. 

So surely The Levites were busy (and happy in the 
service) for the two outer range of buildings on the 
Western side of the Sanctuary had ample room to serve 
a half million people at one time. 

And some conception of the number of Levites may 
be formed by the fact, as well expressed by another 
writer, "If 444 dining halls are provided for the serv- 
ants who attend upon the guests, how vast must the 
multitudes be who sit down to feast in the other part 
of The Temple !" 

Ricardo was delighted to take me everywhere allow- 
able. To be sure the Eastern wing of The Sanctu- 
ary closed six days in the week — only opened on cer- 
tain days. Opened every Sabbath day and in the days 
of the new moon. One could enter from the South 
and pass freely along the Western wings going out at 
the North gate — free admittance to all chambers and 
cells, except the Eastern wing, and the twenty cham- 
bers set apart for private use of The Levites. If one 
entered at the North gate then he must need go out 
at the South gate and vice-a-versa. 

I noticed that on the day before the feast, more 

■ Saints in the Sanctuary than before, going there and 

here on business relating to the festival. One and all 



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seemed to know Ricardo well, so that I had the pleas- 
ure of speaking to Risen Saints whose names I had 
read in The Word when a boy — of men of whom my 
mother told me when as a boy I stood leaning on her 
lap, looking up, in her dear eyes. Men of the olden 
time men before the flood — aye, I saw Adam and by 
his side walked Eve — the two of splendid mien but 
such tender loving eyes — aye, they stood higher than 
the men and women around them — now surely in their 
glorified bodies looking as King and Queen — well 
worth to be the Father and Mother of us all. And by 
Eve, her hand clasping his, I beheld the first martyr — 
of youthful, most beautiful winsome face, a perfect 
form of one just budding into a perfect manhood. So 
tender voiced, such a rare sweet smile on his face: 
surely such a companion the most lovable. Then 
Joseph — what stately dignity — but with the most af- 
fable tenderness in voice and eye — by his side a very 
fair faced Egyptian looking woman. What a thrill of 
pleasure it gave to clasp the hand of Isaiah — such 
eyes that sparkled, and blazed with colors that seemed 
to change with the thoughts that came and went — in 
that wonderful brain. How gracious the condescension 
to all, a man of the sweetest manner — you were at ease 
after conversing with him a few minutes. And a 
well beloved man — for his steps were even followed 
by The Risen Saints, who in their former life on earth 
rapturously loved and treasured his words as more 
precious than gold and silver — for what saint that had 
not loved to read and ponder over the words that 



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speak of the sufferings of The King — The Lamb who 
bore our sins and died to save us. 

And then Ezekiel — the man who some three thou- 
sand years before a stone of this Sanctuary was built 
— had beheld it, given its dimensions and told of its 
glory. And now by his side the tender, delicate girl 
wife, "the desire of thine eyes" — the beautiful woman 
who had been made by Jehovah a sign to the people 
of Israel — whose death the broken hearted husband 
was not allowed to mourn. But now inseparable, when 
visiting the earth always together — the lofty oak the 
trailing vine. How his eyes followed every detail of 
the Sanctuary — and as his eyes caught the shaft, or 
that door, or that passage way, a look of recognition 
passed over his grand face — the vision of the long 
ago had blossomed to Reality. 

I had not seen the Patriarchs, nor King David, nor 
as yet a single one of the Apostles — but how my heart 
beat, and every nerve of my body trembled when Ri- 
cardo's words fell on my ears : — 

"Tomorrow, O Friend, all thy longings shall be sat- 
isfied for thou shalt see The King in His beauty to- 
morrow — aye, The King Himself in His simplicity of 
Majesty and Glory! And with Him the men of old 
time — men of renown! The noble ones of the Earth 
in God's sight, though laughed at, hated and perse- 
cuted by the former great ones of the Earth. Aye, 
thou shalt see Moses, and David and Daniel the Be- 
loved, and the mighty Prince Peter the head of the 
Church under The King — and also John the Disciple 



172 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

whom The Lord Jesus loved — but time would fail to 
tell of "The Princes of the Blood Royal" who tomor- 
row will attend — a retinue to The Prince of The 
Kings of the Earth." 

"But come tired nature must be rested, come out 
and under the trees, on the grass, thou shalt find a 
place of rest for a few hours — then I shall wake you 
to behold a scene that thy heart, and soul, will rejoice 
to see!" 

"What, O Ricardo!" 

"Nay, I tell thee not — thou art getting nervous, jad- 
ed now, thou hast seen too much today — and I prom- 
ise thee that the needed rest shall not rob thee of a 
single glimpse of this pleasure to be — when I shall 
bid thee rise!" 

I knew that Ricardo had spoken truly — surely I 
wanted rest, we went outside The Sanctuary in a place 
in the deep, sweet grass by the stream of life, its low 
hum a music in mine ears, I laid down — and quickly 
fell asleep! 

"Arise, O friend of mine, arise — the hour has come. 
Look thou and behold the sight truly wonderful!" 

I was up at his side quickly — and I stood gazing 
up to the sky in amazement and speechless at that vi- 
sion of Glory. 

The Heaven above seemed opening — I beheld an 
array of moving light — I heard in mine ears the first 
low vibration of a music most ravishing. That array 
— that mass of solid white light came nearer and still 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 173 

nearer — and the mass stood out until a mass no longer, 
but thousands of beings coming towards the earth — 
towards the Portion called the Most Holy. 

And thousands, and thousands, and thousands, I 
could not count them, but as an army — keeping per- 
fect order, phalanx after phalanx, rank after rank, a 
perfect rhythm of steps — without a jar, a break, a fal- 
ter — came that wonderful One hundred and forty four 
thousand — every one with a harp in hand. Robed in 
spotless white. The sound of their harping and sing- 
ing filled the sky, the earth — such pulsations of music 
— sounding like the murmur ings of many waters. 

I could see them descending — to earth on the por- 
tion of The Prince — the foliage soon hid them from 
my sight, but their melody still kept thrilling the air, 
and filling with rapturous delight. And still the ranks 
descending — in different groups — they observed some 
special order — a great high way from The City of The 
King above to the Earthly Resting Place of the 
saints. A vast array — a glorious company, a throng 
the numbers of which the eye may not count. 

Ah, cried my heart — 

"Where is The King, Where is The King \" 

But Ricardo answered not — he stood entranced, 
with ear bent intent on that melody — I saw his fingers 
nervously handling his reed — was he storing some of 
the strains in his brain to repeat at some later time? 
But Ricardo, and all other things were but of minor 
importance now. 



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The Glory in the sky held every other thought in 
check. Words are foolish indeed, in vain, inadequate 
to tell of what mine eyes beheld. I knew that Glory, 
The King Himself. I gazed — how long I could not 
tell — Time and the keeping of time had vanished — 
Hearing entranced, eyes chained to that array of the 
Retinue of The King. I stood there — and could only 
see and listen. 



CHAPTER XX 

To see Him in the Flesh and know 
The Pierced Feet walks here below; 
Wreathed with smiles each earthly thing 
Because the world can see its King! 

AND so the morning came. 
The crowds that now gathered around and in 
the Sanctuary must be reckoned by the milHons. 
But no rush, crush, nor jamming of excited multitudes. 
A sweet condescension ruled the action of all the vis- 
itants — The precedent of place given to those who had 
never beheld the festival before— so that the best po- 
sition, the best point of vantage of view, the best 
seats in which to watch details freely given to the 
strangers within the gates. 

The procession of The King with His retinue from 
The Sacred Enclosure to the Sanctuary the event of 
the day. The entrance by the East side. 

Early in the morning the gates had been thrown 
open by The Levites of the Gate as their brethren 
were busy in giving the finishing touches to the vast 
hall where stood The Throne Royal — and where the 
Kings, Princes, and Governors of the entire Globe 
came before The King to do Him homage. 

The morning was still young — a wonderful fresh, 
bright morning — It seemed as if nature had striven 



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to put on the best of garments to greet The King 
who had visited her borders. Sang the River of Life 
ever so sweetly, musically, glad before as it flowed in 
stately sweep on its mission of fruitfulness and joy? 
Carolled the song birds ever with such a rapt en- 
thralling melody before? Were trees ever so stately 
in appearance, their leaves so green, the palm trees 
ever so majestic, the trees of fruit ever so rich in 
lusciousness of gifts, and did grasses ever make such a 
rich carpet to the tread of humanity? And flowers, 
flowers, flowers put on their best holiday colors, and 
opened wide their petals sending forth their most ex- 
quisite perfume throwing wide their hearts so that the 
treasured scents may be revealed — showing their hap- 
piness at a visit from their Creative King. 

And when the revealing minute came — there was a 
profound and mighty silence over the many millions. 
A happy hearted awe and reverence filled every soul, 
and even the wee floweretts, the almost pin head flow- 
eretts whose tiny petals painted in more rarely ex- 
quisite color than ever glistened on most famous paint- 
er pallette — these fly eye floweretts who ever hid be- 
neath their mother leaves as if afraid to see the eye of 
humanity — even these now suddenly became stately in 
their modesty as if a new strength given them, so that 
they put up their tiny souls that they too may catch 
a share of the beneficence of the smile added to the 
wealth of the world by the presence and the Coming 
of The King. 

And now every eye was turned to the North — to the 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 177 

Sacred Portion from whence would come The King. 
Suddenly on the ear stole the soft far away music of 
harps — Expectancy stood on tip toe — every ear bent to 
hear — every eye turned towards the very, broad 
avenue up which would come The King's retinue. The 
music waxed more clear, more distinct, and such music 
as this — no music of earth could be compared to 
this. At last the white lines glistened far away amid 
the trees — near and still nearer until the first cohort 
came full to view. Clad in white garments, with san- 
dals on feet, with chaplets of white pearls circling every 
head the Harpers abreast in wide ranks, playing and 
singing came on. So true to note, it sometimes seemed 
as only one harp was struck — and only one sonorous 
voice filling all the spaces with rapturous melody. Of 
old I had read of the Harpers, one hundred and forty 
four thousand who stood with The Lamb on Mount 
Zion— and often heard of "Mystical numbers," and 
scores of other explanations, it would seem it never 
entered the brain of the spiritualizing commentators — 
that one hundred and forty four thousand were actual- 
ly that number no more, no less, and that they were 
just as described by the Beloved Disciple: One hun- 
dred and forty four thousand chosen for a special 
purpose from the children of men, redeemed from the 
earth, youths undefiled by touch of women, who had 
never been married, redeemed as first fruits unto God 
and the Lamb, whose mouths were never desecrated 
by guile, now standing without fault constantly at- 
tending The King when ever He went through His 



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vast universe to receive homage, a royal guard of 
Honor, special chosen companions who sang a New 
Song, and no other human tongue could sing that Song. 

In Eld men cavilled — "To vast a retinue of Sing- 
ers:" But now one saw that the magnificence of the 
Kingly display demanded such, and when one realized 
the Power and Majesty of The Imperial Christ the 
number, tho' vast to the narrow mind of man, shrank 
to the common place when The King's Glory fully ap- 
prehended. 

On came the Harpers, every footstep in unison 
keeping time to the melody. They entered the Central 
Gateway of the Eastern Side of The Sanctuary and on 
to the places appointed for them. And as the last 
of them seen by the watchers then came to view a 
host of stately men, the dresses blazoned all over with 
precious stones. At the head of all walked a most 
princely looking man (at either side a man — one, a 
youth I had seen his face before, Abel the first Mar- 
tyr — and at the other side walked a man also, stately, 
somewhat of the same age) Adam and with him his 
two sons Abel and Seth. Then followed a long array 
of grand looking men — above the common height — I 
heard men say : "The Saints before the flood." Then 
a space and came a stately figure — a solitary man — and 
behind him three stalwart men, Noah and his three 
sons. The others unknown until came three men — 
abreast — The Central figure superbly dressed with 
wonderful precious stones — a man of lofty mien, yet 
winsome eyed, Abraham! and on one side Isaac — on 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 179 

the Other side Jacob ! Then twelve men — the first three, 
Judah, Joseph, Ruben — the twelve sons of Jacob — 
Princes all ! great men — with sparkling gems of rare 
brilliancy. Then the nexrt noticeable figure — alone — 
solitary — of lofty statue, commanding presence, a very 
"Noticeable" man indeed, at the sight of him ran a 
murmur from lip to lip — but e'er the name came to me 
I had divined the name — Moses! And there, close be- 
hind, two other men of commanding mien, the look 
of men who once commanded men in their manner, 
Joshua and Caleb. 

But time would fail to tell of those who came — 
some well known men — others who lived, did God's 
mission, passed away from earth's places unknown 
but to the few, soon forgotten by all except The King 
who remembered all His jewels, losing none of them, 
but raised them from among the dead, that they may 
indeed see The One their heart in their earthly pil- 
grimage had called out for — The Deliverer, The 
Christ! 

And then low from lip to lip — the murmur ran — 
"Our Shepherd King!" 

Two men came on together, locked lovingly arm in 
arm — one a rather small sized man. Now he was rud- 
dy, fair of eyes, a beautiful countenance and goodly 
to look on. Dressed in garments equally as rich as his 
companion — save that he wore on his brow a wreath 
as of palm leaves encrusted with very precious stones. 
The loved companion a very tall, stately man, a most 
pleasing face — and brave true eyes showing the beau- 



180 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

tiful soul within : "David and Jonathan !" And a little 
behind — amid a host of stalwart men — all once mighty 
men of valor walked one, head and shoulders over all 
dressed almost plainly — with bare head — Saul The son 
of Kish — but, alas, no longer King. 

And then a host of men — a break, and, lo, came two 
men heading a band of some sixteen men. The leader 
tall, somewhat of a giant, once fiery eyes, but now full 
of tenderness, his walk, his manner betraying a quick, 
fearless, nervous Personage. His dress like that of 
camel's hair woven in the most exquisite manner — with 
gems running along the border. By his side a smaller 
man— a man of passive manners, courtly but rather 
diffident, yet no coward, still backward, but flashing up 
to the occasion of service with a most lordly mien. And 
again the murmur — a shiver from lip to lip: — "The 
Tishbite !" Elisha, and our glorious Prophets !" 

And so they passed by — and then a mixed multi- 
tude — for indeed scattered through the former ranks, 
were plenty of Risen Saints who tho' they were not of 
the family of Israel still were of the Household of 
God — and were Princes for God in the days on which 
they lived on Earth. Men great for God but unknown 
to the World that loved them not, and who buried 
them without recording their names. 

And now fell a holy hush upon the vast multitude — 
The first glimpse of The King in the distance — . My 
heart fluttered like a wounded bird — a mist came over 
mine eyes, a happy mist — at last I should see The 
King — Look in the human face of The Lord Christ! 



HOW THE KING KEIGNED IN ARIEL 181 

His feet coming up the broad avenue — He soon would 
reach the narrow space between the Holy Portion and 
the boundary of The Sanctuary. But my eye fell on 
a solitary figure before him — say thirty paces — a young 
man, in what appeared a rough, but beautifully woven 
garment — the hem of which blazed with jewels — his 
long hair falling down over his shoulders — down be- 
low his waist — making almost a covering — black as a 
raven's wing — glossy as silk — and the face of the 
young man, wreathed with happy smiles — his bearing 
princely — his step measured with a springing grace — 
for surely he may well step with happy pride — not 
pride of self — but with pride at his high station — 
for was he not now as of old — The Herald of The 
King! — "John the Baptist! Once a voice crying in 
the Wilderness !" 

But now I beheld Him, The Prince of The Kings 
of The Earth! — The Creator of the Universe — The 
Holy One by whose wish and fiat all things were made 
— and did then exist ! 

And He yet too far off to recognize the every linea- 
ment of that Blessed Face which for many, many, 
many years I had so earnestly desired to see. And 
Now 

"Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna! to Jehovah Je- 
sus!" 

Rang from lip to lip — spreading, spreading — until 
like the roar of a mighty ocean — the waves of the sea 
in thunder shaking the ground, filling as it were the 
air with millions on millions of echoes — the gazers 



182 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

greeted their King. He came alone — a solitary man, 
rather slender of figure, but stately, tall, clad in white 
linen of wondrous texture — ^but without a single gem 
on the garment which was wrapped around him, gird- 
ed at the waist by a linen girdle. Sandals on his feet 
— and if I could not see I know each foot had a nail 
print — healed but the scar still visible. I could not 
see that brow from which the hair rather long fell 
down on His shoulders — was the hair auburn? But I 
knew on that brow tho' healed there were yet marks 
of the crown of thorns! Nearer — nearer — so stately 
— now looking from side to side — smiling back at those 
who with great joy cried out to Him. I would soon 
see His face — But what was that — from one side of 
the throng I saw running out to The King — a little 
girl — she seemed a very bird so quickly sped she to 
His side, down at His feet, He stood, she clasped the 
sandled feet with one tiny hand, for in the other she 
held something to her very precious — she kissed the 
feet, no doubt where the nail prints had been — and as 
The King looked down on the little mite of humanity 
— I know a smile was in His eyes, a smile on His face. 
He stooped to take the little hand in His — and she 
stood up and held out her hand — and in the little hand 
the precious thing, to her, that she would give as a 
gift to The King. And afterwards I heard it was a 
piece of rare coral — for the little maid had been born 
in one of the far off Islands of the Pacific — a bronze 
colored child — a native of the Races the white man 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 183 

had once plundered and murdered ruthlessly in their 
greed of gain and wanton lust. 

So The King took the present (to her very valuable 
indeed) for she had picked it up on the home sands, 
telling none of her intentions — and none knowing un- 
til the present made. 

He was well pleased surely — for He looked down 
and kissed her on the brow — spoke some words to her 
— and then, hand in hand, with the little maiden, amid 
the thunder tones of happy, joyous Hosannas — The 
King walked on — but, alas, by this incident — I missed 
gazing fully on the face of The King. 

In a few minutes still holding the little one's hand 
— He ascended the steps of the Great Gate to The 
Sanctuary — and passed from my view. 



CHAPTER XXI 

The King holds open Court today — 
The God-head veiled — none dare say nay 
To humblest one who praise would bring, 
And kiss the Pierced Feet of The King. 

NOW the immediate follower of The King was 
a young man arrayed in white linen — and on 
his brow a chaplet of rubies — or stones flaming 
red — red as blood — the stones glowed as if a flame 
imprisoned inside, shedding a luster where ever he 
went — no such gems had I seen before in all the very 
many precious stones with which the Risen Saints 
were arrayed. The man was young, with a spiritual 
face, a face of rare beauty — in his eyes was a look as 
if a white, fair soul looked out on one — his step was 
light and elastic, his whole appearance very striking — 
held the eyes as soon as they fell on him — one felt 
that here a noble character — aye, and so he was — a 
whisper of one friend to another framed the words : — 
''Stephen, the first Martyr of The Church !" 

A sublime honor — for on state occasions he stood 
nearest The King. Close behind, the thirteen apostles 
— three standing forth as the unmistakable Leaders — 
John in the middle, looking a man in full prime of 
life, a magnificent looking man — every inch a King of 
men, yet with all a most kind, lovable face. On one 
side the large, commanding, dignified, lion like, Prince 



186 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

Peter — on the other side — a man of smaller stature — 
but with the face of seer, adventurer (in the best 
sense) keen, alert, intrepid, fearless — yet of singular 
dignity of sweetness — Paul, at last, I beheld. 

The thirteen apostles dressed in white Hnen, each 
with a crown — and on Twelve, each crown one of the 
names of the Tribes of Israel and on Paul's crown 
''Apostle to the Gentiles," for the twelve were, under 
The King, The Judges over the Tribes — fulfilling the 
words of The King, when in humiliation, as our sin 
and impurity Bearer, He trod the earth — a King re- 
jected by His own People. And then a mighty host of 
Risen Saints behind — Great men of the Church, poor 
saints of the church, who when on earth were de- 
spised and laughed at, insulted and ignored by Hu- 
manity — Now had come their hour of triumph — (at 
the judgment seat of Christ — when the dead came 
forth out of their graves, and the living were changing 
at His second Coming — The Saints were judged ac- 
cording to their actions, thoughts and words in former 
life on earth, during the years they professed to be 
Followers of The Lord Christ, That judgment a 
Righteous one — for at the judgment of Christ were 
revealed the spirit that swayed men and women — in 
thought, word, and deed. The selfish works burned up 
— no reward given, and that fact a disgrace indeed! 
The saints whose aim was to "do God's will," in word, 
thought, and act for The Christ's sake — rewarded 
with honors and crowns. According to their faithful- 
ness even the position of Honors given.) 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 187 

They all had come before the judgment seat of 
Christ — not on a trial for life or death — the moment a 
person trusted entirely on The Christ's Blood and 
Merits for Salvation — that moment he had passed 
from Death unto Life — and had eternal Life, which 
life could not be forfeited by any deed committed. But 
from that moment they became responsible to The 
Christ — their thoughts, words and deeds taken notice 
of — and for such they were judged. Some christians 
there, "saved as by fire," — Saved ! but no honors con- 
ferred on them even of the simplest kind. And not 
ever the highest, brightest, most learned in the church 
on Earth, in former ages, now stood foremost of the 
Kings and Priests among the Risen Saints. Faithful- 
ness to The Truth, faithfulness to the duty that lay 
nearest to their hands, the smallest duty not ignored 
for larger, the truly earnest hearted, ignoring their own 
pride and self, so that The Christ honored, exalted — 
these the Persons who held the highest honors, the 
grandest rewards given to. Oft once simplest Saints 
on Earth, 

"Stood Foremost of The Sons of Light!" 

In the great Court room I could not get close to the 
throne on which The King was seated with His retinue 
around Him — but at a distance I beheld the audi- 
ence given by The King to the Great Ones of The 
Earth who now came to do Him Homage. 

Already their gifts had been given to the Treasury 
— for none came before The Presence without a thank 
offering. Nothing compulsory, no fixed tribute, no ab- 



188 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 

solute amount — simply, a Gift of the Heart — was 
wanted alone by The King. 

The Audience Place the largest chamber in the en- 
tire Building — aye, without a doubt the largest ever 
seen by human eye. Along the corridors were as- 
sembled Representatives from every Nation on the 
Globe. 

Each Kingdom or nation was represented every year 
by its Kingly Saint Ruler, and with him a grand array 
of Princes, and such men of the realm as chosen by 
the people. Not by any means the same men every 
year — but the aim to send representative men whom 
the people loved and honored — sending such men to 
do an honor to The King. And with them ever came 
The Resident Saint who ruled over the nation, abso- 
lutely, supremely when it came to judging matters of 
Right and Wrong, and interpreting The King's Writ- 
ten Laws. It was truly a grand sight to see them in 
their brave apparel of fine cloth, laces and jewels. To 
see them draw near The King, and all bow in homage 
before Him, giving Him thanks and Praises for His 
mercies. He shook the hands of each representative — 
and had a word apt for all. And so nation after na- 
tion passed before Him — words of praise falling from 
His lips, but not to all, for some received rebuke and 
some warnings — for sin was not yet Dead in the Hu- 
man Heart. But the hand refused to none — mercy and 
love never failed to go out to penitence, with the re- 
buke was ever a loving condescension. And while 
The King gave audience to The Kings and Princes of 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN ARIEL 189 

the Nations — the millions enjoyed themselves after 
the great sacrifices made on The Altar and accepted 
by fire on top of Mount Zion. 

The King's bounty spread for all, the great dining 
halls filled with gay feasters. Friends met friends 
The sociable discourse among the many — the quiet 
chat between the two. People who had never seen The 
Sanctuary before — and every year were thousands of 
such — walked up and down viewing its many splen- 
dors — for indeed to the eye it was a maze of bewilder- 
ing beauty. One saw one feature to be lost in admira- 
tion and viewing would come the thought — naught can 
equal this! — yet in a minute some other feature 
seemed to be greater than the great one passed. 

And then the music. The house flooded with de- 
licious strains — and human ears heard melodies, com- 
posed in the upper Heights. The sweet strains were 
never silent in The Sanctuary. In some chamber, or 
the other, voices and instruments ever sent forth 
sounds of delight. 

And so the hours passed — and nothing to note the 
difference between night and day, except the great 
clocks in the towers which chimed the Hours. But no 
confusion amid the millions, no crush, no jam, no 
overcrowding, no haste, no rushing, no accident, no 
mishap, no worry, no bustle, no pouting, no sulking, no 
hard words, no hasty words (or if seemingly such a 
loving, immediate apology). A Perfect Calm, A Per- 
fect Peace filled all the atmosphere where The Prince 
of Peace Reigned. 



CHAPTER XXII 

At last on Earth in Holy Place 
To meet Him — see Him face to face. 
To hear His words upon my ear — 
O King of Mine! — I wish Thee here! 

AS written before the Sanctuary was never closed 
— not a door closed when came the eventide, 
(as night shadows fell over the Earth,) being 
entirely independent of the light of the sun, moon and 
stars, or of any artificial light, like Gas and Electric- 
ity. The Sanctuary was never dark — the Light from 
the City of the Risen Saints above always flooded its 
courts with a light clearer than that of the sun seven 
fold, but light without glitter, glare, or oppressive 
heat. The atmosphere of the Sanctuary at a steady 
temperature, no variation in summer nor winter, no 
fires, nor furnaces, nor hot air, nor steam pipe. The 
world, and immediate country around, may be white 
with snow, and have ice on pool and stream — but 
the grounds of The Sanctuary unchangeable in sum- 
mer and winter. The air invigorating — so that the 
feeblest had the power and strength to walk the length 
and breadth of The Sanctuary without feeling weak 
or tired, or distressed. So that a tired person was 
never seen in the limits of the House. 



192 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

The Levites were busy during the Great Feast, but 
the relays at stated hours, the changing of the various 
officers and attendants made no laborious hours, for 
no faint, tired, nor weary person ever allowed to 
minister in The King's House. All was a service of 
Love, a loving servitude that knew no fear, but that of 
a goodly one — and every one well instructed in their 
various duties — for Love and Law — went hand in 
hand, and none in all the Sanctuary dared to trans- 
gress the Written Rules of the House. No presump- 
tion, no usurpation of office, for if one offended the 
punishment was swift — and for glaring continued of- 
fenses — Death. The King in His wisdom laid down 
the Rules, not one of them a burden, nor offensive, 
nor harsh, nor repellent — but they were rules that had 
to be obeyed. And none here could do a wrong act 
with impunity, for no matter how secret, it was in- 
stantly known — A Risen Saint stood by the offender's 
side as soon as offence committed — The King had 
flashed a message to the Saint, and the Saint quick in 
execution of The King's behest. And so Humanity 
saw quickly that with transgression there was no com- 
promise — and none could commit the simplest wrong 
with impunity. To be sure the Death penalty only in 
the most flagrant offences — but for other offences, per- 
haps, the dire disgrace of banishment from The Sanc- 
tuary service forever — or banishment until The King 
Pardoned. And no dallying with petty, so called 
trivial offences, there were no trivial offences passed 



HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 193 

by looked over in The Sanctuary. The Place was 
Holy, Sacred and it was kept so. 

The Levites came in courses at stated hours, while 
that Division of Levites served at the Sanctuary. For 
certain families had certain weeks and months to 
serve, when completed they were relieved by other 
courses and family. For monotony was not tolerated 
in The Sanctuary. It was alone a love servitude — 
and if not given as a heart service that soul no longer 
permitted to do service before The King. And as 
The King read the hearts of all, each Levite strove 
earnestly to be in accord with The King in thought, 
word and act. 

Hence whenever a stranger entered one of The 
Gates a Levite stood always ready to greet, and give 
him a hearty welcome, nothing of a make believe wel- 
come, but the stranger knew from eye, words and ac- 
tions of the welcoming Levite, that here was a friend 
anxious to relieve his every want, to comfort, to cheer, 
to give him of his heart's desire as far as in him lay. 
The Levite was not only a servant — but at once a 
loving friend, a tender brother, a wise counsellor. And 
no service too exacting on the point of the stranger 
to be ignored by The Levite. A divine patience neces- 
sary in a good many instances — and a Divine Patience 
ever ready, always given for the true Levite had an 
unexhaustible supply to draw from — in the loving face 
of The King. 

The Levites also had control of The Human De- 
partment of Choral services for the outer ranges of 



194 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

Buildings in the Sanctuary. Singers and Players in 
their appointed chambers — For the Ritual of musical 
Praise constantly sounding in some parts of the vast 
Building. The Courts had ever some sweet melody 
sounding along them, softly echoing the ravishing 
strains. And while The Levites controlled and ap- 
pointed the Singers and players, the sweet voiced cun- 
ning players of all the world chosen. Men and Wom- 
en Singers, carefully trained, in bands coming and 
going at various hours, relieved before weariness of 
voice, or heart, or brain made a falter, or gave a false 
note — for perfection, ever more the aim — the rule — 
the pride of both Singers and Players. Every known 
musical instrument that gave sweet melody here em- 
ployed, all the instruments made by the most cunning 
artificer. And such melody when the grand chorus 
swelled out, with the many cunning instruments, like 
gorgeous back ground as it were — sometimes like the 
rush of thunder, the swell of the ocean to carry the 
volume of Praise aloft heavenward so as to beat its 
fragrance as it were at the feet of The King — some- 
times sweet, low, tender, delicate melody, soft as hum 
of a humming bird, or ripple of a tiny rivulet singing 
at night time in a summer wood, sweet and soft as a 
maiden whispering for the first time to her own heart 
— the thought — I love Him! And so night and day — 
the Singers and Players there to welcome and fill with 
gladness the worshipper at Jehovah's Throne. 

For now The King wanted glad service — He want- 
ed happy hearts to approach Him. For is He not — "The 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 195 

Happy God"? The days of loud prayers, soul wres- 
tlings over, the night that called for tears, and moans, 
and bitter prayers had passed away. Faith no longer 
wore the Crown — Sight all radiant, beautiful, and 
bright the heritage of all Humanity. ''Believe!" No 
longer the keynote, the touch stone, the one thing par- 
amount — Now the Good News, the message was, — 
"Come and see Him!" And so the night had fled 
away, unbelief no longer possible. Now faith and 
hope had folded their glorious Banners, wanted no 
longer for Love stood triumphant ! Love in a Person, 
to be seen, touched, heard, handled — ^by "Who so ever 
will." 

Not that the Sinner's need of a Saviour now a vain 
thing — nay. The Christ wanted now the same as ever. 
His Life — His Death, His Resurrection, Now as es- 
sential as ever to every one born into the world — but 
the time of Preachers, Evangelists, Pastors passed 
away forever — for all knew of Him — and all that 
wished could Behold Him! for at the Great Feasts 
when the nations, as represented by their chosen men, 
came before Him to do Him homage — then came any 
person who wished, and passed before Him. 

No favouritism with The King — He knew no rich, 
no poor as such — when men came singly before Him 
they stood before Him in no official trappings, of no 
human distinction, as no leader, nor great one — each 
came as an individual person who desired to look in 
the face of The King. 



196 HOW THE KING EEIGNED IN AEIEL 

Order was supreme, and certain rules had to be 
obeyed. Authority and persons in authority were re- 
ceived by Him and their dignity of office suffered not 
at His welcoming — Delegated authority given to cer- 
tain men — and when they acted in that capacity they 
came before The King to receive the honor, and cour- 
tesy due to them — they were not recognized as indi- 
viduals in their official capacity. 

But when the Nations, Provinces, Cities, Towns and 
Hamlets' officers came before Him, and were treated 
as such in the interview, afterwards which ever of 
those officers wanted a private interview, then that per- 
son stood before The King — simply as a human with 
no more right nor privilege than any other human. 
For while no Republics known in The King's Domin- 
ion, the Kingdoms and their bounds established, were 
all recognized by Him, and powers delegated to men 
of His choosing. 

For The King stood The Imperial Czar, The Auto- 
crat, and worked His own will among the children of 
men. 

Now while Officials were received in State in the 
Great Chamber set aside for that, the private audiences 
always given alone in one of the Eastern chambers set 
aside for the use of The Prince. He alone the Creator 
of The Body, Soul and Spirit of man — met the Crea- 
ture face to face, and none saw the unveiling of the 
Creature to The Christ — that interview sacred. 

And so when Ricardo came to me, with the sweet- 
est flame of love in his eyes, his hands clasping mine 



HOW THE KING KEIGNED IN ARIEL 197 

more nervous than ever, I had felt it before, his whis- 
per the sv^eetest and most tender than ever fell on my 
ear — my heart flushed with joy unspeakable: — 

"Come ! Beloved, The King has sent thee a mes- 
sage — His love — He desireth to see Thee!" 

On, and on, I trod with feet of air, my heart beat- 
ing peacefully, but with a wide open flood gate of joy 
pouring sweet thoughts over me. 

To see The King in His Beauty ! 

To see The One who had wrought out for me a 
Perfect Righteousness by ever doing while on earth 
The will of The Father— The Christ who shed His 
Hfe blood for my sins — He the Perfect — the only Sa- 
viour — to look in His face! — 

Ricardo led me on — I took no note of how long 
the way — of what corridors we passed through — my 
soul was thinking of a Person! At last we stood be- 
fore a closed door — by it stood a Risen Saint who wel- 
comed me — Ricardo threw his arms around my neck — 
how we kissed each other — but both too full of joy 
for words, for he was unspeakably happy in behold- 
ing my joy — then he turned away and left me alone 
with The Risen Saint. 

The Saint took my hand in his — he opened the door 
— he gently thrust me forward into the room — I heard 
the door close — I knew a Solitary Figure was stand- 
ing a few feet from me — I did not look up, but with 
a great cry of joy I knelt down at The feet, I clasped 
them, I saw the nail prints, I kissed them lovingly, 



198 HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 

passionately, tenderly — a hand lifted me up — I saw 
the nail prints in the palm — and now the moment had 
come at last to me, the moment I had thought of for 
many, many years — my life's wish — I looked up, and 
saw, The face of Jesus Christ! 



HOW THE KING REIGNED IN ARIEL 199 

BY THE SAME AUTHOR 

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Waiting for The King 

That Jew 

The City of Antichrist 

The Imperial 

Songs in the Waiting 

The Antichrist 

The Whip of God 

An Unclean Spirit 

Songs from a Watch-Tower 

Jewish Title to Asia Minor 

SQUIBS 

The Hyper Critics 

The Baptist Deacon's Prayer 

The Devil's Cuckoo 

The Baptist Deacon's Golden Dream 

Professor of University of Chicago to Students 

The Baptist White Washers 

The Crime of the 64 

Reply to Philip Mauro (ist) 

The Living Church Crisis 

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